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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koltun-Fromm, Ken (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Embodiment
Identität > Motiv
Jüdische Literatur
Authentizität
Ethnische Identität
Jüdische Philosophie
Metaphor.
Judaism.
Jews > Intellectual life.
Jews > Identity.
RELIGION > Judaism > Rituals & Practice.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
metaphor.
Metaphore.
Juifs > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
Juifs > États-Unis > Identite.
Judaïsme > États-Unis.
Philosophy & Religion.
Religion.
Jews > United States > Intellectual life.
Jews > United States > Identity.
Judaism > United States.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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