ISBN:
9781786949868
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (351 pages)
Serie:
Jewish Cultural Studies v.2
Paralleltitel:
Print version Bronner, Simon J Jews at Home : The Domestication of Identity
DDC:
306.69674
Schlagwort(e):
Home-Religious aspects-Judaism
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Jewish families-Conduct of life
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Jewish families-Religious life
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Electronic books
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Kurzfassung:
A multifaceted exploration of what makes a home 'Jewish', materially and emotionally, and of what it takes to make Jews feel 'at home' in their environment
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Editor and Advisers -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: The Dualities of House and Home in Jewish Culture -- PART I · IN AND OUT OF THE HOME -- 1 The Domestication of Urban Jewish Space and the North-West London Eruv -- 2 Every Wise Woman Shoppeth for her House: The Sisterhood Gift Shop and the American Jewish Home in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- PART II · SACRED, SECULAR, AND PROFANE IN THE HOME -- 3 Reimagining Home, Rethinking Sukkah: Rabbinic Discourse and its Contemporary Implications -- 4 From Sacred Symbol to Key Ring: The Ḥamsa in Jewish and Israeli Societies -- 5 770 Eastern Parkway: The Rebbe's Home as Icon -- 6 From the Nightclub to the Living Room: Gender, Ethnicity, and Upward Mobility in the 1950s Party Records of Three Jewish Women Comics -- PART III · WRITING HOME -- 7 Samuel Rawet's Wandering Jew: Jewish-Brazilian Monologues of Home and Displacement -- 8 Home in the Pampas: Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish Gauchos -- 9 Domesticity and the Home (Page): Blogging and the Blurring of Public and Private among Orthodox Jewish Women -- PART IV · FORUM: FEELING AT HOME -- INTRODUCTION -- 10 Culture Mavens: Feeling at Home in America -- RESPONSES -- 11 At Home in the World -- 12 The Co-Construction of Europe as a Jewish Home -- 13 Reflections on 'Culture Mavens' from an Australian Jewish Perspective -- 14 There's No Place Like Home: America, Israel, and the (Mixed) Blessings of Assimilation -- 15 The Last Word: A Response -- Contributors -- Index
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