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Framing Jewish Culture
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Framing Jewish Culture written by Simon J. Bronner and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Modernity offers people choices about who they want to be and how they want to appear to others. The way in which Jews choose to frame their identity establishes the dynamic of their social relations with other Jews and non-Jews - a dynamic complicated by how non-Jews position the boundaries around what and who they define as Jewish. This book uncovers these processes, historically, as well as in contemporary behavior, and finds explanations for the various manifestations, in feeling and action, of 'being Jewish.' Boundaries and borders raise fundamental questions about the difference between Jews and non-Jews. At root, the question is how 'Jewish' is understood in social situations where people recognize or construct boundaries between their own identity and those of others. The question is important because this is by definition the point at which the lines of demarcation between Jews and non-Jews, and between different groupings of Jews, are negotiated. Collectively, the contributors to the book expand our understanding of the social dynamics of framing Jewish identity. The book opens with an introduction that locates the issues raised by the contributors in terms of the scholarly traditions from which they have evolved. Part I presents four essays dealing with the construction and maintenance of boundaries - two by scholars showing how boundaries come to be etched on an ethnic landscape and two by activists who question and adjust distinctions among neighbors. Part II focuses on expressive means of conveying identity and memory, while, in Part III, the discussion turns to museum exhibitions and festive performances as locations for the negotiation of identity in the public sphere. A lively discussion forum concludes the book with a consideration of the paradoxes of Jewish heritage revival in Poland, and the perception of that revival by Jews and non-Jews. *** ..".these essays help us understand the social dynamics of Jewish identity and how identity is constructed in modern life." -- AJL Reviews, February/March 2015 (Series: Jewish Cultural Studies - Vol. 4) [Subject: Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies]
Jewish Cultural Studies
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Jewish Cultural Studies written by Simon J. Bronner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Home categories.
Jewish Portraits Indian Frames
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Author : Jael Miriam Silliman
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2003
Jewish Portraits Indian Frames written by Jael Miriam Silliman and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Religion categories.
A riveting family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta.
Jewish Cultural Studies
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Jewish Cultural Studies written by Simon J. Bronner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with categories.
Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.
Jewish Portraits Indian Frames
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Author : Jael Silliman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-20
Jewish Portraits Indian Frames written by Jael Silliman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with categories.
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames offers a personal and social history of the author's foremothers -- Baghdadi Jews who lived most of their lives in the Jewish community in Calcutta. Jael Silliman begins with a portrait of Farha, her maternal great-greandmother, who dwelled almost entirely within the Baghdadi Jewish community no matter where she and her husband traveled on business (Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore). Next is her maternal grandmother, Miriam (Mary), who was much more Anglicized than Farha and deeply influenced by British colonial practices. The third portrait, of Silliman's mother, Flower, reveals a woman in a double transition: her own and India's. Flower grew up in colonial India, witnessed India's struggle for independence, and lived her middle years in an independent India. The final sketch is of Silliman herself. Born in Calcutta in 1955 in the waning Jewish community, Silliman grew up in a cosmopolitan and Indian world, rather than a Baghdadi Jewish one. Silliman's own travels have taken her to the US, where, as a teacher and scholar, her primary identification is with the "South Asian intellectual and professional diaspora." These rich family portraits convey a sense of the singular roles women played in building and sustaining a complex diaspora in what Silliman calls "Jewish Asia" over the past 150 years. Her sketches of the everyday lives of her foremothers -- from the food they ate and the clothes they wore to the social and political relationships they forged -- bring to life a community and a culture, even as they disclose the unexpected and subtle complexities of the colonial encounter as experienced by Jewish women.
Framing Sukkot
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Author : Gabrielle Anna Berlinger
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-20
Framing Sukkot written by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-20 with Religion categories.
An “important and timely” study of the Jewish holiday’s temporary shelters and the meaning of home (Journal of Folklore Research). The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Israelites as they journeyed across the desert after the exodus from Egypt. Despite the simple Biblical prescription for its design, the remarkable variety of creative expression in the construction, decoration, and use of the sukkah, in both times of peace and national upheaval, reveals the cultural traditions, political convictions, philosophical ideals, and individual aspirations that the sukkah communicates for its builders and users today. In this ethnography of contemporary Sukkot observance, Gabrielle Anna Berlinger examines the powerful role of ritual and vernacular architecture in the formation of self and society in three sharply contrasting Jewish communities: Bloomington, Indiana; South Tel Aviv, Israel; and Brooklyn, New York. Through vivid description and in-depth interviews, she demonstrates how constructing and decorating the sukkah and performing the weeklong holiday’s rituals of hospitality provide unique circumstances for creative expression, social interaction, and political struggle. Through an exploration of the intersections between the rituals of Sukkot and contemporary issues, such as the global Occupy movement, Berlinger finds that the sukkah becomes a tangible expression of the need for housing and economic justice, as well as a symbol of the longing for home. “Berlinger’s rich and nuanced ethnography sheds light on many sukkot from Bloomington to Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Jerusalem, and back to Brooklyn; like the wandering in the Sinai desert, this journey is crucial.” —Journal of American Folklore
Jewish Cultural Studies
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Jewish Cultural Studies written by Simon J. Bronner and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Social Science categories.
Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.
Mothers In The Jewish Cultural Imagination
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Author : Marjorie Lehman
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
Mothers In The Jewish Cultural Imagination written by Marjorie Lehman and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Most Jews will feel intimately familiar with and attached to the figure of the ‘Jewish mother’, yet few have questioned representations of mothers and motherhood in Jewish culture. This volume aims to fill this gap by bringing to the fore the vast network of symbols and images which Jews have associated with mothers from the Bible to the modern period. It demonstrates the complex ways in which the Jewish mother has been used to construct and frame Jewish religion and culture.
Jewish Feminism
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Author : Esther Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-03-12
Jewish Feminism written by Esther Fuchs and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with Religion categories.
This book argues that Jewish feminist theory is currently limited by several frames of reference that are usually taken for granted. The critical analysis is intended to release the grip of these limiting frames on Jewish feminism so as to let it evolve, grow, and live up to its fullest potential.
In Search Of Identity
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Author : Dan Urian
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999
In Search Of Identity written by Dan Urian and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
This study of Israeli culture affords a meaningful insight into a society in a state of transition.