Jews at home
Subtitle: the domestication of identity
By: edited by Simon J. Bronner.
Contributors: Bronner, Simon J.
Series: Jewish cultural studies -- v. 2
Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781904113461
Subjects: Jewish families -- Conduct of life; Jewish families -- Religious life; Home -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dualities of house and home in Jewish culture / Simon J. Bronner; title: The domestication of urban Jewish space and the North-West London eruv / Jennifer Cousineau; title: Every wise woman shoppeth for her house: the sisterhood gift shop and the American Jewish home in the mid-twentieth century / Joellyn Wallen Zollman; title: Reimagining home, rethinking sukkah: rabbinic discourse and its contemporary implications / Marjorie Lehman; title: From sacred symbol to key ring: the ḥamsa in Jewish and Israeli societies / Shalom Sabar; title: 770 Eastern Parkway: the Rebbe's home as icon / Gabrielle A. Berlinger; title: From the nightclub to the living room: gender, ethnicity, and upward mobility in the 1950s party records of three Jewish women comics / Giovanna P. Del Negro; title: Samuel Rawet's Wandering Jew: Jewish-Brazilian monologues of home and displacement / Rosana Kohl Bines; title: Home in the Pampas: Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish gauchos / Mónica Szurmuk; title: Domesticity and the home (page): blogging and the blurring of public and private among Orthodox Jewish women / Andrea Lieber; title: Culture mavens: feeling at home in America / Jenna Weissman Joselit; title: At home in the world / David Kraemer; title: The co-construction of Europe as a Jewish home / Joachim Schlör; title: 'Culture Mavens' from an Australian Jewish perspective / Suzanne D. Rutland; title: There's no place like home: America, Israel, and the (mixed) blessings of assimilation / Michael P. Kramer; title: The last word: a response / Jenna Weissman Joselit.