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.
Print Book, English, 2008
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Oxford, 2008
xii, 320 p. : ill., map, music ; 25 cm.
9781904113454, 1904113451
1166893217
Note on Transliteration Preface SIMON J. BRONNERIntroduction: The Chutzpah of Jewish Cultural Studies SIMON J. BRONNER Part I: Expression1 The Red String: The Cultural History of a Jewish Folk Symbol ELLY TEMAN2 A Synagogue in Olyka: Architecture and Legends SERGEY R. KRAVTSOV3 Yiddish in the Aftermath: Speech Community and Cultural Continuity in Displaced Persons Camps MIRIAM ISAACS4 'National Dignity' and 'Spiritual Reintegration': The Discovery and Presentation of Jewish Folk Music in Germany JASCHA NEMTSOV Part II: Identity5 'Take Down Mezuzahs, Remove Name-Plates': The Emigration of Objects from Germany to Palestine JOACHIM SCHLA-R6 Holocaust Narratives and their Impact: Personal Identification and Communal Roles HANNAH KLIGER, BEA HOLLANDER-GOLDFEIN and EMILIE PASSOW7 Ambivalence, Identity, and Russian-Jewish Culture OLGA GERSHENSON8 The Delicatessen as an Icon of Secular Jewishness TED MERWIN Part III: Representation9 Hasidism versus Zionism as Remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the Two World Wars ILANA ROSEN10 The Sublimity of the Jewish Type: Balzac's Belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene aux Camelias JUDITH LEWIN11 As Goyish as Lime Jell-O? Jack Benny and the American Construction of Jewishness HOLLY A. PEARSE 12 Jewish Coding: Cultural Studies and Jewish-American Cinema MIKEL KOVENNotes on ContributorsIndex