Doubting the Devout : : The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination / / Nora L Rubel.
Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leade...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and American Culture
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Family Feud
- 1. Orthodoxy and Nostalgia in the American Jewish Imagination
- 2. Rebbes' Daughters: The New Chosen
- 3. The New Jewish Gothic
- 4. Muggers in Black Coats 109
- Conclusion: They Are Us in Other Clothes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index