Will the “Real” Jew Please Stand Up! Karaites, Israelites, Kabbalists, Messianists, and the Politics of Identity

Truth be told, my Ashkenazi-centric perspective was coloring things before I had even left my house. When a friend asked me what time the community’s prayer service began, my instinct was to answer something along the lines of, “Shul starts at 9:30, but my contact told me there wouldn’t be a minyan...

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1. Verfasser:	Aaron J. Hahn Tapper
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology Applied philosophy Behavioral sciences Clergy Critical theory Cultural identity Ethnic groups Ethnography Ethnology Ethnoreligious groups Group identity Historical methodology Historiography History History of philosophy History of religion Jewish culture Jewish history Jewish identity Jewish mysticism Jewish peoples Jewish rituals Jewish studies Judaic philosophy Judaism Kabbalah Karaite Jews Metanarratives Normativity Philosophy Practical theology Psychology Rabbis Religion Social criticism Social philosophy Social psychology Spiritual leaders Theology
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Zusammenfassung:	Truth be told, my Ashkenazi-centric perspective was coloring things before I had even left my house. When a friend asked me what time the community’s prayer service began, my instinct was to answer something along the lines of, “Shul starts at 9:30, but my contact told me there wouldn’t be a minyan until 10:00.” Though I caught myself from saying “shul,” a Yiddish term for synagogue, a word I had been raised with that this group undoubtedly did not use, I stumbled nonetheless in saying the latter half of the sentence. My friend gently hinted that they didn’t necessarily follow