ISBN:
9780203497470
,
9780415473781
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (415 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Literature Handbooks
Parallel Title:
Print version The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures
DDC:
305.8924
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and the various ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments, and challenges within the discipline. This handbook considers in turn:How the individual terms 'Jewish' and 'Culture' are defined looking at perspectives from Religious Studies, Sociology, Literary Studies, Musicology, Anthropology, Art and GeographyHow Jewish Cultures are theorised, considering key themes such as textuality, bodies, powerOffers case studies in Jewish CulturesWith essays from leading scho
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Defining terms: disciplinary perspectives; 1 Anthropology; 2 Music; 3 Literary studies; 4 Sociology; 5 Religious studies; 6 History; 7 Art history; 8 Film, television, and new media studies; PART II Theorizing contemporary Jewish cultures; 9 Power; 10 Textuality; 11 Religion/secularity; 12 Memory; 13 Bodies; 14 Space and place; 15 Networks; PART III Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures; 16 "Jewface" and "Jewfaçade" in Poland, Spain, and Birobidzhan
Description / Table of Contents:
17 Television blackface: Jews, race and comedy in the UK and Australia18 Mizrahi/Arab/Israeli/queer: the cultural politics of Dana International; 19 Turkish Jewish journalism and its audiences; 20 The idea of Yiddish: re-globalizing North American Jewish culture; 21 Yiddish and multilingual urban space in Montreal; 22 Pop, piety and modernity: the changing spaces of Orthodox culture; 23 Seeing and being in contemporary Orthodox Jewish dress; 24 Life drawing: autobiography, comics, Jewish women; 25 Playing with history: Jewish subjectivity in contemporary lens-based art
Description / Table of Contents:
26 Scoreboard: sports and American Jewish identities27 Theorizing "Jewish genetics": DNA, culture and historical narrative; 28 Jewish spirituality and late capitalism; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.4324/9780203497470
