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Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Release : 1999
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 710/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In Search of American Jewish Culture by : Stephen J. Whitfield
Download or read book In Search of American Jewish Culture written by Stephen J. Whitfield. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.
Author : Jack Kugelmass
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 219/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Key Texts in American Jewish Culture by : Jack Kugelmass
Download or read book Key Texts in American Jewish Culture written by Jack Kugelmass. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Texts in American Jewish Culture expands the frame of reference used by students of culture and history both by widening the "canon" of Jewish texts and by providing a way to extrapolate new meanings from well-known sources. Contributors come from a variety of disciplines, including American studies, anthropology, comparative literature, history, music, religious studies, and women's studies. Each provides an analysis of a specific text in art, music, television, literature, homily, liturgy, or history. Some of the works discussed, such as Philip Roth's novel Counterlife, the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers, are already widely acknowledged components of the American Jewish studies canon. Others-such as Bridget Loves Bernie, infamous for the hostile reception it received among American Jews+ may be considered "key texts" because of the controversy they provoked. Still others, such as Joshua Liebman's Piece of Mind and the radio and TV sitcom The Goldbergs, demonstrate the extent to which American Jewish culture and mainstream American culture intermingle with and borrow from each other.
Author : Marcie Cohen Ferris
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 893/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jewish Roots in Southern Soil by : Marcie Cohen Ferris
Download or read book Jewish Roots in Southern Soil written by Marcie Cohen Ferris. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.
Author : Sylvia Barack Fishman
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 745/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jewish Life and American Culture by : Sylvia Barack Fishman
Download or read book Jewish Life and American Culture written by Sylvia Barack Fishman. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions. Fishman introduces a new concept called coalescence, an adaptation technique through which Jews merge American and Jewish elements. Analyzing the increasingly permeable boundaries in the ethnic identity construction of Jewish and non-Jewish Americans, she suggests that during the process of coalescence, Jews combine the texts of American and Jewish cultures, losing track of their dissonance and perceiving them as a unified Jewish whole. The author generates data from diverse sources in the social sciences and humanities, including the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other statistical studies, interviews and focus groups, popular and material culture, literature and film, to demonstrate the pervasiveness of coalescence. The book pays special attention to gender issues and the relationship of women to their Jewish and American identities. A blend of lively narrative and scholarly detail, this book includes useful tables, accessible figures and models, and fascinating illustrations which present the educational, occupational, and behavioral patterns of American Jews, organizational profiles, family formation, religious observance, and the impact of Jewish education.
Author : Jenna Weissman Joselit
Release : 2002-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 026/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wonders of America by : Jenna Weissman Joselit
Download or read book The Wonders of America written by Jenna Weissman Joselit. This book was released on 2002-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selective relish with which most American Jews affirm their identity -- consuming kosher delicacies once a year, extravagantly celebrating the bar mitzvahs of their sons and the weddings of their daughters -- has usually given rise to satire or consternation. The Wonders of America offers an alternative perspective, for this pioneering social history of Jewish culture highlights the cultural ingenuity and adaptive genius of American Jewish life. Drawing on advertisements, etiquette manuals, sermons, and surveys, Jenna Weissman Joselit constructs a lively and humorous account of how three generations of American Jews created their distinctive American culture. This provocative, enlightening study describes the forging of a rich and exuberant modern Jewish identity and makes it clear that it is not the theoretical debates of rabbis and scholars but the small choices of daily life that shape and sustain a culture
