Jewishness
Subtitle: expression, identity, and representation
By: edited by Simon J. Bronner.
Contributors: Bronner, Simon J.
Series: Jewish cultural studies -- v. 1; The Littman library of Jewish civilization; Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781904113454
Subjects: Jews -- Identity; Jews -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The red string: the cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol / Elly Teman; title: A synagogue in Olyka: architecture and legends / Sergey R. Kravtsov; title: Yiddish in the aftermath: speech community and cultural continuity in displaced persons camps / Miriam Isaacs; title: 'National dignity' and 'spiritual reintegration': the discovery and presentation of Jewish folk music in Germany / Jascha Nemtsov; title: 'Take down mezuzahs, remove name-plates': the emigration of objects from Germany to Palestine / Joachim Schlör; title: Holocaust narratives and their impact: personal identification and communal roles / Hannah Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie S. Passow; title: Ambivalence and identity in Russian Jewish cinema / Olga Gershenson; title: The delicatessen as an icon of secular Jewishness / Ted Merwin; title: Hasidism versus Zionism as remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the two World Wars / Ilana Rosen; title: The sublimity of the Jewish type: Balzac's Belle juive as virgin Magdalene aux camélias / Judith Lewin; title: As goyish as lime Jell-O?: Jack Benny and the American construction of Jewishness / Holly A. Pearse; title: Jewish coding: cultural studies and Jewish American cinema / Mikel J. Koven.