Jewishness : expression, identity, and representation / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bronner, Simon J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008.
Series:	Jewish cultural studies ; v. 1 Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Subjects:	Jews > Identity. Jews > Civilization.

Table of Contents:

The red string: the cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol / Elly Teman
A synagogue in Olyka: architecture and legends / Sergey R. Kravtsov
Yiddish in the aftermath: speech community and cultural continuity in displaced persons camps / Miriam Isaacs
'National dignity' and 'spiritual reintegration': the discovery and presentation of Jewish folk music in Germany / Jascha Nemtsov
'Take down mezuzahs, remove name-plates': the emigration of objects from Germany to Palestine / Joachim Schlör
Holocaust narratives and their impact: personal identification and communal roles / Hannah Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie S. Passow
Ambivalence and identity in Russian Jewish cinema / Olga Gershenson
The delicatessen as an icon of secular Jewishness / Ted Merwin
Hasidism versus Zionism as remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the two World Wars / Ilana Rosen
The sublimity of the Jewish type: Balzac's Belle juive as virgin Magdalene aux camélias / Judith Lewin
As goyish as lime Jell-O?: Jack Benny and the American construction of Jewishness / Holly A. Pearse
Jewish coding: cultural studies and Jewish American cinema / Mikel J. Koven.

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