Stepping into Zion ― Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity

By studying the multiracial Jewish organization Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer’s Stepping into Zion considers the question ?Who is a Jew?”? a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.

Janice W. Fernheimer is an associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies and the director of Jewish Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on questions of identity, invention, and cross-audience communication. Her scholarship has appeared in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College English, Argumentation and Advocacy, Computers and Composition Online, Currents in Electronic Literacy, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Technical Communication. Fernheimer is also a founding member and leader of Klal Rhetorica, an international scholarly organization that explores issues of Jewish discourse, identity, and culture.