Jewish Studies Quarterly Volume 23 (2016) No. 3 Mohr Siebeck JSQ Special issue: State and Spirit: The Impact of Sovereignty on Judaism I. Sovereignty, Place and Culture Adam S. Ferziger and Miri Freud-Kandel Introduction Shaul Kelner Veneration and Critique: Israel, the Sociology of American Judaism and the Problematics of Sovereignty David N. Myers The Rise of a Sovereign Shtetl: Communitarianism from the Bottom Up in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. Nomi Maya Stolzenberg Challenging the Sovereign Shtetl: Communitarianism from the Bottom Up, Redux Ilan Zvi Baron Eating Jerusalem: Politics, Food and Identity