Thinking Jewish Culture In America
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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.
Material Culture And Jewish Thought In America
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Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-21
Material Culture And Jewish Thought In America written by Ken Koltun-Fromm 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 2010-04-21 with Religion categories.
How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating study of the interplay between material culture and Jewish thought. Ken Koltun-Fromm draws from philosophy, cultural studies, literature, psychology, film, and photography to portray the vibrancy and richness of Jewish practice in America. His analyses of Mordecai Kaplan's obsession with journal writing, Joseph Soloveitchik's urban religion, Abraham Joshua Heschel's fascination with objects in The Sabbath, and material identity in the works of Anzia Yezierska, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as Jewish images on the covers of Lilith magazine and in the Jazz Singer films, offer a groundbreaking approach to an understanding of modern Jewish thought and its relation to American culture.
Jews In The Mind Of America
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Author : Charles Herbert Stember
language : en
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Release Date : 1966
Jews In The Mind Of America written by Charles Herbert Stember and has been published by New York : Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Antisemitism categories.
Coming To Terms With America
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Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-09
Coming To Terms With America written by Jonathan D. Sarna and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09 with History categories.
Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna, Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.
The Americanization Of The Jews
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Author : Robert Seltzer
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1995-02
The Americanization Of The Jews written by Robert Seltzer and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02 with Social Science categories.
Assesses the current state of American Jewish life, drawing on the research and thinking of scholars from a variety of disciplines and diverse points of view.
Saving Remnants
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Author : Sara Bershtel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Saving Remnants written by Sara Bershtel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.
"Saving Remnants provides a series of honest and clear-minded portraits of young American Jews trying to confront what it means to be Jewish."--Irving Howe, author of World of Our Fathers "You don't have to be Jewish to be fascinated and challenged by this sensitive, profoundly intelligent book. Saving Remnants is about Jewishness, but it is also about all of us, searching for 'identity' on a menu that includes New Age epiphanies along with old-time religions and instant 'traditions.'"--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Fear of Falling
Imagining Jewish Authenticity
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Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-28
Imagining Jewish Authenticity written by Ken Koltun-Fromm 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 2015-01-28 with Religion categories.
Exploring how visual media presents claims to Jewish authenticity, Imagining Jewish Authenticity argues that Jews imagine themselves and their place within America by appealing to a graphic sensibility. Ken Koltun-Fromm traces how American Jewish thinkers capture Jewish authenticity, and lingering fears of inauthenticity, in and through visual discourse and opens up the subtle connections between visual expectations, cultural knowledge, racial belonging, embodied identity, and the ways images and texts work together.
Nine American Jewish Thinkers
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Author : Milton Konvitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Nine American Jewish Thinkers written by Milton Konvitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Social Science categories.
The nine American Jews of whom Milton Konvitz writes are philosophers, jurists, or rabbis, widely known and readily accepted as American Jewish thinkers. Their work reflects all essential Jewish values. Each person in his own way has dedicated his work to the betterment of life and the advancement of human ideals. In this sense, their Jewishness is not defined by religion alone. Americanism permeated all they thought and all they did.Konvitz argues that in the complex modern world, secularists often serve God more handsomely than do members of synagogues or churches. For example, when the Supreme Court in 1954 (with Felix Frankfurter playing a key role behind the scenes) agreed to outlaw segregation of the races in public schools, was the Court's action secular or religious? When Congress passed the statute known as the Americans with Disabilities Act, requiring equal treatment of handicapped persons, was the action secular or religious? Is a minimum wage act secular or religious? Is Medicaid a secular or a religious act? Konvitz believes the distinction is not useful, or even possible.The book is divided into three parts, reflecting Konvitz's range of intellectual interests. The nine essays offer concise intellectual biographies of three American Jewish philosophers, three Supreme Court Justices, and three rabbis. The philosophers-Horace M. Kallen, Morris Raphael Cohen, and Sidney Hook-are world-renowned. The jurists-Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and Felix Frankfurter-hold prominent places in American legal history. And the three rabbis-Leo Jung, Robert Gordis, and Jacob Agus-are known wherever Jewish thought is studied. By treating with equal seriousness the lives and writings of both religious and secularist thinkers, the author intentionally minimizes the conventional antagonism and frequent conflict between religion and secularism.An unusual feature of the book is the fact that the author was a close friend of six of the persons whose lives and work are examined, allowing him a perceptive insight into their character and thought. Although the book is about serious subjects, its graceful style makes the contents easily accessible to lay persons as well as scholars and students of Judaica.
Voices Of Jacob Hands Of Esau
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Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Release Date : 1984
Voices Of Jacob Hands Of Esau written by Stephen J. Whitfield and has been published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Jews categories.
Examines the Jewish experience in 20th century America. The four parts of the book deal with Jewish intellectual reactions to totalitarianism and the Holocaust, the history of American Jewry, the Jews in mass culture, and the Jews of the South. References to antisemitism occur throughout the book.
Jews And The American Soul
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Author : Andrew R. Heinze
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Jews And The American Soul written by Andrew R. Heinze and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Social Science categories.
What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common? They belong to a group of pivotal and highly influential Jewish thinkers who altered the face of modern America in ways few people recognize. So argues Andrew Heinze, who reveals in rich and unprecedented detail the extent to which Jewish values, often in tense interaction with an established Christian consensus, shaped the country's psychological and spiritual vocabulary. Jews and the American Soul is the first book to recognize the central role Jews and Jewish values have played in shaping American ideas of the inner life. It overturns the widely shared assumption that modern ideas of human nature derived simply from the nation's Protestant heritage. Heinze marshals a rich array of evidence to show how individuals ranging from Erich Fromm to Ann Landers changed the way Americans think about mind and soul. The book shows us the many ways that Jewish thinkers influenced everything from the human potential movement and pop psychology to secular spirituality. It also provides fascinating new interpretations of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Western views of the psyche; the clash among Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish moral sensibilities in America; the origins and evolution of America's psychological and therapeutic culture; the role of Jewish women as American public moralists, and more. A must-read for anyone interested in the contribution of Jews and Jewish culture to modern America.