Consumer Culture And The Making Of Modern Jewish Identity
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Consumer Culture And The Making Of Modern Jewish Identity
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Author : Gideon Reuveni
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-07
Consumer Culture And The Making Of Modern Jewish Identity written by Gideon Reuveni and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Business & Economics categories.
This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.
Longing Belonging And The Making Of Jewish Consumer Culture
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Author : Gideon Reuveni
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Longing Belonging And The Making Of Jewish Consumer Culture written by Gideon Reuveni and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
The Institute of Jewish Studies, founded in 1954 by the late Alexander Altmann, is dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of scholarship in Jewish Studies and related fields. Its programmes include public lectures, seminars, and annual conferences. All lectures and conferences are open to the general public. Jewish history has been extensively studied from social, political, religious, and intellectual perspectives, but the history of Jewish consumption and leisure has largely been ignored. The hitherto neglect of scholarship on Jewish consumer culture arises from the tendency within Jewish studies to chronicle the production of high culture and entrepreneurship. Yet consumerism played a central role in Jewish life. This volume is the first of its kind to deal with the topic of Jewish consumer culture. It gives new insights on Jewish belongings and longings and provides multiple readings of Jewish consumer culture as a vehicle of integration and identity in modern times
Reading Germany
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Author : Gideon Reuveni
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006
Reading Germany written by Gideon Reuveni and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the conclusion that, contrary to widely held assumptions, consumer culture in the Weimar period, far from undermining reading, used reading culture to enhance its goods and values. Reading material was marked as a consumer good, while reading as an activity, raising expectations as it did, influenced consumer culture. Consequently, consumption contributed to the diffusion of reading culture, while at the same time a popular reading culture strengthened consumption and its values. Gideon Reuveni is Director of the Centre for German Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the co-editor of The Economy in Jewish History (Berghahn, 2010) and several other books on different aspects of Jewish history. Presently he is working on a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.
The Making Of Modern Jewish Identity
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Author : Motti Inbari
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-30
The Making Of Modern Jewish Identity written by Motti Inbari and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-30 with Political Science categories.
This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders – rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals – to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy. Comparing their ideological change to acts of conversion, the study examines the philosophical, sociological, and psychological path of the leaders’ transformation. The individuals examined are novelist Arthur Koestler, who transformed from a devout Communist to an anti-Communist crusader following the atrocities of the Stalin regime; Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine, who moved from the New Left to neoconservative, disillusioned by US liberal politics; Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel, who transformed from an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Hungarian rabbi to messianic Religious-Zionist due to the events of the Holocaust; Ruth Ben-David, who converted to Judaism after the Second World War in France because of her sympathy with Zionism, eventually becoming a radical anti-Israeli advocate; Haim Herman Cohn, Israeli Supreme Court justice, who grew up as a non-Zionist Orthodox Jew in Germany, later renouncing his belief in God due to the events of the Holocaust; and Avraham (Avrum) Burg, prominent centrist Israeli politician who served as the Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency, who later became a post-Zionist. Comparing aspects of modern politics to religion, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including modern Jewish studies, sociology of religion, and political science.
I L Peretz And The Making Of Modern Jewish Culture
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Author : Ruth R. Wisse
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-07-01
I L Peretz And The Making Of Modern Jewish Culture written by Ruth R. Wisse and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Social Science categories.
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.
Jewish Consumer Cultures In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Europe And North America
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Author : Paul Lerner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-22
Jewish Consumer Cultures In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Europe And North America written by Paul Lerner and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-22 with History categories.
This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings Jewish studies and the history and theory of consumer culture into dialogue with each other. Its chapters explore Jewish businesspeople's development of niche commercial practices in several transnational contexts; the imagining, marketing, and realization of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine through consumer goods and strategies; associations between Jews, luxury, and gender in multiple contexts; and the political dimensions of consumer choice. Together the essays in this volume show how the study of consumption enriches our understanding of modern Jewish history and how a focus on consumer goods and practices illuminates the study of Jewish religious observance, ethnic identities, gender formations, and immigrant trajectories across the globe.
Thinking Jewish Culture In America
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Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Thinking Jewish Culture In America written by Ken Koltun-Fromm and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with Religion categories.
Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with Chancellor Arnold Eisen’s postscript, position Jewish thought within the dynamics and possibilities of contemporary Jewish culture. These diverse essays in Jewish thought re-imagine cultural space as a public and sometimes contested performance of Jewish identity, and they each seek to re-enliven that space with reflective accounts of cultural meaning. How do Jews imagine themselves as embodied actors in America? Do cultural obligations limit or expand notions of the self? How should we imagine Jewish thought as a cultural performance? What notions of peoplehood might sustain a vibrant Jewish collectivity in a globalized economy? How do programs in Jewish studies work within the academy? These and other questions engage both Jewish thought and culture, opening space for theoretical works to broaden the range of cultural studies, and to deepen our understanding of Jewish cultural dynamics. Thinking Jewish Culture is a work about Jewish cultural identity reflected through literature, visual arts, philosophy, and theology. But it is more than a mere reflection of cultural patterns and choices: the argument pursued throughout Thinking Jewish Culture is that reflective sources help produce the very cultural meanings and performances they purport to analyze.
From Rebel To Rabbi
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Author : Matthew B. Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2007
From Rebel To Rabbi written by Matthew B. Hoffman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.
This book examines the ways modern Jewish thinkers, writers, and artists appropriated the figure of Jesus as part of the process of creating modern Jewish culture.
Cultural Disjunctions
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Author : Paul Mendes-Flohr
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-07-20
Cultural Disjunctions written by Paul Mendes-Flohr and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-20 with Religion categories.
"Contemporary Jews variously configure their identity, which is no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with many communities-vocational, professional, political, and cultural-whose interests may not coincide with that of the community of their birth and inherited culture. In Cultural Disjunctions, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores the possibility of a spiritually and intellectually engaged cosmopolitan Jewish identity for our time. To ground this project, he draws on the sociology of knowledge and cultural hermeneutics to reflect on the need to participate in the life of a community so that it enables multiple relations beyond its borders and allows one to balance a commitment to the local and a genuine obligation to the universal. Over the course of six provocative chapters, Mendes-Flohr lays out what this delicate balance can look like for contemporary Jews, both in the Diaspora and in Israel. Mendes-Flohr takes us through the ghettos of twentieth-century Europe, the differences between the personal libraries of traditional and secular Jews, and the role of cultural memory. Ultimately, the author calls for Jews to remain discontent with themselves (as a check on hubris), but also discontent with the social and political order, and to fight for its betterment"--
Re Envisioning Jewish Identities
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Author : Efraim Sicher
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-30
Re Envisioning Jewish Identities written by Efraim Sicher and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Religion categories.
This innovative study combines readings of contemporary literature, art, and performance to explore the diverse and complex directions of contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the diaspora.