{"id":6634,"date":"2023-05-02T02:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2023-05-02T02:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:27:54","slug":"goldstein-quoted-in-cnn-article-what-does-it-mean-to-be-jewish-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/05\/02\/goldstein-quoted-in-cnn-article-what-does-it-mean-to-be-jewish-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldstein Quoted in CNN Article `What does it mean to be Jewish in the US?`"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/05\/goldstein-price-whiteness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1875\" height=\"1250\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/05\/goldstein-price-whiteness.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/05\/goldstein-price-whiteness.jpg 1875w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/05\/goldstein-price-whiteness-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/05\/goldstein-price-whiteness-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/05\/goldstein-price-whiteness-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/05\/goldstein-price-whiteness-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/goldstein-eric.html\">Eric L. Goldstein<\/a>, Associate Professor in the History Department and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, was recently quoted in a CNN article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/04\/us\/us-jewish-racial-identity-religion-explained-cec\/index.html\">What does it mean to be Jewish in the US?<\/a>&#8221; Drawing on his 2006 book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691136318\/the-price-of-whiteness\">The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity<\/a> <\/em>(Princeton UP), Goldstein offers extensive context on the histories of migration, assimilation, and racial identity among Jews in the U.S. The author of the article, Harmeet Kaur, connects those histories to the present, including the rising tide of public expressions of antisemitism globally. Read an excerpt from the article below, along with the full piece here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/04\/us\/us-jewish-racial-identity-religion-explained-cec\/index.html\">What does it mean to be Jewish in the US?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Despite greater acceptance, Goldstein said Jews in the US didn\u2019t just \u201cbecome White.\u201d Jewish inclusion into the White mainstream was conditional \u2013 accessing the benefits that come with being part of the dominant population often came at the expense of maintaining a distinct ethnic identity. And though society was beginning to see them as White, Jews didn\u2019t necessarily see themselves as that way given their long history of marginalization. So, as they achieved a more secure position in American society, some asserted their differences.<br><br>\u201cThere was a clash between experiencing this exceptional level of integration and then thinking of yourself as part of an oppressed minority group,\u201d Goldstein added. \u201cThere\u2019s always been that contradiction in Jewish identity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Eric L. Goldstein, Associate Professor in the History Department and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, was recently quoted in a CNN article &#8220;What does it mean to be Jewish in the US?&#8221; Drawing on his 2006 book The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (Princeton UP), Goldstein offers extensive context on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}