Why a New York Times diversity map omitted Jews as a distinct ethnic category
By
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Summary
This article critiques a New York Times multimedia feature titled "How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots," which maps ethnic and immigrant origins across the United States. The author argues that the feature notably omits Jews as a distinct ethnic or immigrant category, reflecting a broader pattern where Jews don't fit neatly into America's frameworks of ethnicity, nationality, and religion. The piece explores the historical and sociological reasons for this omission, including the complex identity of Jewish Americans as both a religious group and an ethnic/national people, and how this ambiguity has led to their erasure from such diversity maps. The article uses the omission as a springboard to discuss Jewish identity, assimilation, and the unique position of Jews in American multiculturalism.
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· 3 pulled'The City Without Jews' is the title shared by a 1922 satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer and a forthcoming history of Nazi Vienna by Douglas Smith. It could also be the title of a recent map feature published by the New York Times.
A celebration of diversity, it includes 200 'unique identities' represented across all 50 states: Scandinavians in the upper Midwest, African-Americans clustered in the...
Jews have never fit neatly into the country's categories of ethnicity, nationality and religion.
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