ISBN:
9781909821019
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
Series Statement:
Jewish Cultural Studies v.1
Parallel Title:
Print version Bronner, Simon J Jewishness : Expression, Identity and Representation
DDC:
305.892/4
Keywords:
Jews-Civilization
;
Jews-Identity
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: The Chutzpah of Jewish Cultural Studies -- PART I: EXPRESSION -- 1 The Red String: The Cultural History of a Jewish Folk Symbol -- 2 A Synagogue in Olyka: Architecture and Legends -- 3 Yiddish in the Aftermath: Speech Community and Cultural Continuity in Displaced Persons Camps -- 4 'National Dignity' and 'Spiritual Reintegration': The Discovery and Presentation of Jewish Folk Music in Germany -- PART II: IDENTITY -- 5 'Take Down Mezuzahs, Remove Name-Plates': The Emigration of Objects from Germany to Palestine -- 6 Holocaust Narratives and their Impact: Personal Identification and Communal Roles -- 7 Ambivalence and Identity in Russian Jewish Cinema -- 8 The Delicatessen as an Icon of Secular Jewishness -- PART III: REPRESENTATION -- 9 Hasidism versus Zionism as Remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the Two World Wars -- 10 The Sublimity of the Jewish Type: Balzac's Belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene aux Camélias -- 11 As Goyish as Lime Jell-O? Jack Benny and the American Construction of Jewishness -- 12 Jewish Coding: Cultural Studies and Jewish American Cinema -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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