Jewishness : expression, identity, and representation

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

The idea of Jewishness is examined in this volume with provocative interpretations of Jewish experience, and fresh approaches to the understanding of Jewish cultural expressions.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bronner, Simon J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Jews > Civilization
Jews > Identity
Identität
Judentum
Juden.
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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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