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Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky

Stories of Accommodation and Audacity
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Description

Some Americans continue to perceive Arab and Jewish immigrants and their descendants as outsiders-outsiders who belong to two distinct groups with a historically adversarial relationship to each other. What happens, though, when Arabs and Jews find themselves in a place such as Kentucky, separated from communities in their home countries or big American cities? As a child in Lexington, Kentucky, Nora Rose Moosnick accompanied her father on his many outings to local stores and businesses and obse

Product Details

PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
Publish DateJune 29, 2012
Pages228
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780813136219
Dimensions9.1 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches | 1.1 pounds

About the Author

Nora Rose Moosnick is an adjunct professor in the department of sociology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Adopting Maternity: White Women Who Adopt Transracially or Transnationally.

Reviews

""An important, compelling work. Moosnick's analysis of the interbraided relationships and experiences of Arabs and Jews in a southern setting is a captivating and powerful story." --Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South" --


""Moosnick weaves together a refreshing blend of life stories and follows a captivating group of Arab and Jewish women through a narrative negotiation between tradition, assimilation, and Kentucky's cultural landscape." -- Douglas A. Boyd, author of Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community" --


""Nora Rose Moosnick's book, Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacit, grabs readers' attention before they open the book. One does not immediately associate the words "Arab" or "Jew" with "Kentucky," nor does the combination elicit expectations of affinity. Yet this is precisely what moosnick seeks to redress in this compelling look at the lives of ten Kentuckians whose lives, she argues, are triply overlooked." --Laura Stemp-Morlock, Ph.D. student, University of Waterloo, The Journal of Southern Religion" --


""These compelling narratives challenge misconceptions and overcome the invisibility of Arabs and Jews in out of the way places in America." -- Digital Journal" --

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