Jewishness : : expression, identity, and representation / / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

• Superior document: Jewish cultural studies ; Volume 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Bronner, Simon J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford ;, Portland, Oregon : : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,, 2014.; 2008
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish cultural studies ; Volume 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) :; illustrations, map.

Table of Contents

The red string: the cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol / Elly Teman -- A synagogue in Olyka: architecture and legends / Sergey R. Kravtsov -- Yiddish in the aftermath: speech community and cultural continuity in displaced persons camps / Miriam Isaacs -- 'National dignity' and 'spiritual reintegration': the discovery and presentation of Jewish folk music in Germany / Jascha Nemtsov -- 'Take down mezuzahs, remove name-plates': the emigration of objects from Germany to Palestine / Joachim Schlor -- Holocaust narratives and their impact: personal identification and communal roles / Hannah Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie S. Passow -- Ambivalence and identity in Russian Jewish cinema / Olga Gershenson -- The delicatessen as an icon of secular Jewishness / Ted Merwin -- Hasidism versus Zionism as remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the two World Wars / Ilana Rosen -- The sublimity of the Jewish type: Balzac's Belle juive as virgin Magdalene aux camelias / Judith Lewin -- As goyish as lime Jell-O?: Jack Benny and the American construction of Jewishness / Holly A. Pearse -- Jewish coding: cultural studies and Jewish American cinema / Mikel J. Koven.