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Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism /
"How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; MASCULINITY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN JUDAISM; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. An American Religion; 1 The Reasonableness of Judaism: An American Theology; 2 Manly Missions: Jews, Christians, and American Religious Masculinity; Part II. The Healthy Body and the Land; 3 Go West, Young Jew: The Galveston Movement, Immigrant Men, and the Pioneer Spirit; 4 Indian-Israelite Identification: Claiming a Manly Past for American Judaism; 5 Afternoon Calisthenics at Woodbine: Jewish Agriculture, Religious Ambivalence, and the Male Body.
- 6 The Courageous Diaspora: Masculinity and the Development of American ZionismPart III. The Abnormal and the Criminal; 7 Soft Criminals: Theodore Bingham and the Gender of Jewish Crime; 8 Leo Frank and Jewish Sexuality; 9 Bad Jews: The Leopold and Loeb Hearing; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.