Introduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History

Sander L. Gilman

PART I: ACCOMMODATION

Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz: Two Divergent Examples of Jewish Communities in the Far East of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Albert Lichtblau

Michael John

At the Frontier: The South African Jewish Experience

John Simon

Living within the Frontier: Early Colonial Australia, Jews, and Aborigines

Paul R. Bartrop

Alaskan Jews Discover the Last Frontier

Bernard Reisman

PART 2: IDENTITY

From One Frontier to Another: Jewish Identity and Political Organization in Lithuania and South Africa, 1890-1939

Gideon Shimoni

A Frontier Experience: Israeli Jews Encounter Diaspora in Cape Town, South Africa

Sally Frankental

Bifocality in Jewish Identity in the Texas-Jewish Experience

Seth L. Wolitz

(Re)Creating Jewish Ethnicities on the Brazilian Frontier

Jeffrey Lesser

Jews in Chinese Culture: Representations and Realities

Zhou Xun

The Enemy Within: Some South African Jewish Writers

Marcia Leveson

From the Brotherhood of Man to the World to Come: The Denial of the Political in Rabbinic Writing under Apartheid

Claudia B. Braude

Writing Oneself at the Frontier: Jewishness and Otherness in Albert Memmi's La Statue de Sel

Heidi Grunebaum-Ralph

PART 3: CONFLICT

The Color of Jews: Jews, Race, and the White Australia Policy

Jon Stratton

Ethnonationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Identity Politics: The North American and South African Experiences

Milton Shain

Neither Maori nor Pakeha: Jewish Women's Cultural Identity

Livia Kathe Wittmann

Francophone Jewish Intellectuals in Present-Day Quebec

Regine Robin

Contributors

Index