Key Texts in American Jewish Culture

Key Texts in American Jewish Culture
Title Key Texts in American Jewish Culture PDF eBook
Author Jack Kugelmass
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 324
Release 2003
Genre History
ISBN 9780813532219

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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.

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature
Title The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Schreier
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 236
Release 2020-10-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0812252578

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Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of "breakthrough"—that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley—must also be seen as the critically originary moment of Jewish American literary study. According to Schreier, this is the primal scene of the Jewish American literary field, the point that the field cannot avoid repeating and replaying in instantiating itself as the more or less formalized academic study of Jewish American literature. More than sixty years later, the field's legibility, the very condition of its possibility, remains overwhelmingly grounded in a reliance on this single ethnological narrative. In a polemic against what he sees as the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Schreier interrogates a series of professionally powerful assumptions about Jewish American literary history—how they came into being and how they hardened into cliché. He offers a critical genealogy of breakthrough and other narratives through which Jewish Studies has asserted its compelling self-evidence, not simply under the banner of the historical realities Jewish Studies claims to represent but more fundamentally for the intellectual and institutional structures through which it produces these representations. He shows how a historicist scholarly narrative quickly consolidated and became hegemonic, in part because of its double articulation of a particular American subject and of a transnational historiography that categorically identified that subject as Jewish. The ethnological grounding of the Jewish American literary field is no longer tenable, Schreier asserts, in an argument with broad implications for the reconceptualization of Jewish and other identity-based ethnic studies.

In Search of American Jewish Culture

In Search of American Jewish Culture
Title In Search of American Jewish Culture PDF eBook
Author Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher UPNE
Pages 348
Release 1999
Genre Music
ISBN 9781584651710

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A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.

Jewish American Literature

Jewish American Literature
Title Jewish American Literature PDF eBook
Author Jules Chametzky
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 1264
Release 2001
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780393048094

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A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.

American Judaism

American Judaism
Title American Judaism PDF eBook
Author Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 558
Release 2019-06-25
Genre Religion
ISBN 0300190395

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Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year

The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education

The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education
Title The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education PDF eBook
Author Jonathan B. Krasner
Publisher Brandeis University Press
Pages 511
Release 2011-05-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1584659831

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The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education

Jews and Words

Jews and Words
Title Jews and Words PDF eBook
Author Amos Oz
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 244
Release 2012-11-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0300156774

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DIV Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism’s most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness, and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism, and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader, any reader, to join the conversation. /div