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Authentically Jewish : Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition /
This book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind conflicts over who and what should be recognized as authentically Jewish. Although the concept of authenticity has been around for several centuries, it became a central focus for Jews since existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Jewish Authenticity
- 1 The Changing Faces of Jewish Authenticity
- 2 Recognition and Authenticity: From Sartre to Multiculturalism
- 3 Orthodoxy and the Authentic Jew
- 4 Reforming Jewish Tradition and the Spiritual Quest
- 5 The Experiential Authenticity of Jewish Meditation, Jewish Yoga, and Kabbalah
- 6 The Messianic Heresy and the Struggle for Authenticity
- Part III Authentic Jewish Peoplehood
- 7 Creating a National Jewish Culture in Israel
- 8 Shtetl Authenticity: From Fiddler on the Roof to the Revival of Klezmer
- 9 Becoming Jewish: Intermarriage and Conversion
- 10 Authentically Jewish Genes
- Part IV Struggles over Authentication and Recognition
- 11 Lost Jewish Tribes in Ethiopia
- 12 Recognizing Black Jews in the United States
- 13 Authenticating Crypto-Jewish Identity
- 14 Newly Found Jews and the Regimes of Recognition
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author