Jewish whiteness and its others

Abstract

While the majority of North American Jews identify as racially white and Ashkenazi (European), this quantitative fact sidesteps the qualitative reality of their hegemonic social positioning. Reflecting the prevailing culture in which they live, dominant Jewish communities and institutions are inadequately aware of Jews who do not identify as white and of the need to share time, space and power with them. Personal narratives by Jews of colour excerpted from blogs, online communities and Jewish niche magazines are used to illustrate their experiences, in particular their treatment by other Jews and their exclusion from Jewish spaces where white Ashkenazi Jewishness is dominant. Theories of critical whiteness and of ethnic identity are used to consider Jewish racial heterogeneity and to urge the forging of alliances as imagined by some of the narrators.

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