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Imagining Jewish Authenticity : Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought /

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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Koltun-Fromm, Ken (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: visual authenticity in the American Jewish imaginary
  • The anxiety of authenticity in image and text
  • Seeing Israel in Bernard Rosenblatt's social Zionism
  • Seeing things in Abraham Joshua Heschel's the Sabbath
  • Seeing food in the Jewish home beautiful and Kosher by design
  • The language of Jewish bodies in Michael Wyschogrod's the Body of Faith
  • The language of gendered bodies in Rachel Adler's Engendering Judaism
  • The language of racial bodies in Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's The Colors of Jews
  • Conclusion: imagining Jewish authenticity in every generation.