Key texts in American Jewish culture
By: edited by Jack Kugelmass.
Contributors: Kugelmass, Jack.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life; United States -- Civilization -- Jewish influences; United States -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Eros and Americanization: David Levinsky and the etiquette of race / Esther Romeyn; title: Is it good for the Jews? the apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz / Charles Dellheim; title: Performing Jewish identity in Philip Roth's counterlife film and theater / Emily Miller Budick; title: The limits of empathy: Hollywood's imagining of Jews ca. 1947 / Donald Weber; title: The meanings of Marjorie Morningstar / Gordon Hutner; title: Fiddling with Sholem Aleichem: a history of Fiddler on the Roof / Stephen J. Whitfield; title: "Yesterday's woman," today's moral guide: Molly Goldberg as Jewish mother / Joyce Antler; title: First as farce, then as tragedy: the demise of Bridget loves Bernie / Jack Kugelmass; title: Jewish universalism: some visual texts and subtexts / Ezra Mendelsohn; title: My own Kaddish: Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 3 / David Schiller; title: Louis Finkelstein's The Jews: a mid-twentieth-century presentation of Judaism / Harvey E. Goldberg; title: Embracing world of our fathers: the context of reception / Hasia Diner; title: Peace of mind (1946): Judaism and the therapeutic polemics of postwar America / Andrew R. Heinze; title: Kaplan's key: a dynamo "in de middle" of the neighborhood / Andrew Bush and Deborah Dash Moore; title: Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew: a critique / Edward Shapiro; title: One nation, with liberty and Haggadahs for all / Joel Gereboff.