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Jewishness : expression, identity, and representation /
The idea of Jewishness is examined in this volume with provocative interpretations of Jewish experience, and fresh approaches to the understanding of Jewish cultural expressions.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
2008.
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| Series: | Jewish cultural studies ;
v. 1. Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series) |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The red string: the cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol / Elly Teman
- A synagogue in Olyka: architecture and legends / Sergey R. Kravtsov
- Yiddish in the aftermath: speech community and cultural continuity in displaced persons camps / Miriam Isaacs
- 'National dignity' and 'spiritual reintegration': the discovery and presentation of Jewish folk music in Germany / Jascha Nemtsov
- 'Take down mezuzahs, remove name-plates': the emigration of objects from Germany to Palestine / Joachim Schlör
- Holocaust narratives and their impact: personal identification and communal roles / Hannah Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie S. Passow
- Ambivalence and identity in Russian Jewish cinema / Olga Gershenson
- The delicatessen as an icon of secular Jewishness / Ted Merwin
- Hasidism versus Zionism as remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the two World Wars / Ilana Rosen
- The sublimity of the Jewish type: Balzac's Belle juive as virgin Magdalene aux camélias / Judith Lewin
- As goyish as lime Jell-O?: Jack Benny and the American construction of Jewishness / Holly A. Pearse
- Jewish coding: cultural studies and Jewish American cinema / Mikel J. Koven.