Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 1 - Jewishness: Expression, Identity, and Representation
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Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 1 - Jewishness: Expression, Identity, and Representation
This volume proposes that the idea of `Jewish`, or what people think of as `Jewishness`, is revealed in expressions of culture and applied in constructions of identity and representation. In Part I, `Expression`, Elly Teman considers how the kabbalistic red string found at sites throughout Israel conveys a political and psychological response to terrorism. Sergey Kravtsov examines Jewish and non-Jewish narratives concerning a synagogue in eastern Europe. Miriam Isaacs looks at expressions of cultural continuity in DP camps in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and Jascha Nemtsov discusses how Jewish folk music was presented as high art in early twentieth-century Germany.
In Part II, `Identity`, Joachim Schlör enquires how the objects taken by emigrants leaving Germany for Palestine after Hitler¹s rise to power represented their identities. Hanna Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie Passow examine how survivors` narratives become integrated into family identities. Olga Gershenson offers close readings of how the identities of Jews as enacted in post-perestroika films highlight conflicting Russian attitudes towards Jews. Ted Merwin considers commercial establishments as `sacred spaces` for Jewish secular identities.
Part III, `Representation`, opens with stories collected in Israel by Ilana Rosen from Jews who lived in Carpatho-Russia, while Judith Lewin considers the characterization of the Jewish woman in French literature. Holly Pearse and Mikel Koven, respectively, decode the Jewishness of modern radio comedy and Hollywood film.
The idea of Jewishness is applied in the volume with provocative interpretations of Jewish experience, and fresh approaches to the understanding of Jewish cultural expressions.
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Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, where he is lead scholar of the campus’s Holocaust and Jewish Studies Center.
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Category: Vallás / judaisztika, Ismeretterjesztő , Kultúra, Társadalomtörténet
Category: Vallás / judaisztika, Ismeretterjesztő , Kultúra, Társadalomtörténet