Strictly Kosher Reading : : Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy / / Yoel Finkelman.
For centuries, fervently observant Jewish communities have produced thousands of works of Jewish law, thought, and spirituality. But in recent decades, the literature of America’s Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] community has taken on brand-new forms: selfhelp books, cookbooks, monthly magazines, parenting...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Gehinom Trio at Slime’s Bar
- Chapter I: ArtScroll Judaism: Haredi Popular Literature in Context
- Chapter II: “Ancient Wisdom”: Haredi Popular Literature and General Culture
- Chapter III: “Not Absolute Truth”: Haredi Writers Debate Their Own Acculturation
- Chapter IV: “There Was Only One Man in the Shtetl...”: Haredi Judaism’s Founding Myth
- Chapter V: “Knowledge of the Clearest and Most Objective Kind”: Simple Faith and Haredi Popular Theology
- Chapter VI: “We Have Been Influenced…”: The Rhetoric of Haredi Internal Criticism
- Chapter VII: Truth, Fiction, and Narrative
- Endnotes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index