Jewishness : expression, identity, and representation

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Jewishness : expression, identity, and representation

edited by Simon J. Bronner

(The Littman library of Jewish civilization, . Jewish cultural studies ; v. 1)

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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 Schlör
  • 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 camélias / 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

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