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

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Superior document:Jewish cultural studies ; Volume 1
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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.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) :; illustrations, map.
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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.