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“Race places”: Changing locations of Jewish identities

In 1997, Matti Bunzl and I took a break from the 96th Annual American Anthropological Meetings in Washington, D.C., to lunch together in a small restaurant near the conference. As young Jewish ethnographers in our last year of graduate school, we discussed the frustration we experienced studying Jewish culture. We felt ignored in our own discipline because of our topic area, and yet sensed that we were not taken seriously in Jewish studies because of our discipline. Our problem was not a recent one, since, historically, anthropology has had a complex and contradictory relationship with Jews and Judaism. As Boyarin and Boyarin write,