Author: Ameilia Sharon HolbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust memorials
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Exhibiting Jewishness
Author: Ameilia Sharon HolbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust memorials
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Jewish Decadence
Author: Jonathan FreedmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022658108X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
"Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--
The Holocaust and Representations of Jews
Author: K. Hannah HoltschneiderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136672079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today, in particular in the context of the Holocaust.
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
Author: Richard I. CohenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019993424X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
Passing Illusions
Author: Kerry WallachPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews
The Figural Jew
Author: Sarah HammerschlagPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226315134
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers recast this maligned figure in positive terms, and in so doing transformed postwar conceptions of politics and identity. Sarah Hammerschlag explores this figure of the Jew from its prewar usage to its resuscitation by Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. Sartre and Levinas idealized the Jew’s rootlessness in order to rethink the foundations of political identity. Blanchot and Derrida, in turn, used the figure of the Jew to call into question the very nature of group identification. By chronicling this evolution in thinking, Hammerschlag ultimately reveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. Both an intellectual history and a philosophical argument, The Figural Jew will set the agenda for all further consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy.
American Post-Judaism
Author: Shaul MagidPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness
Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism
Author: Sarah ImhoffPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253026369
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
An examination of how early twentieth-century American Jewish men experienced manhood and presented their masculinity to others. How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early twentieth-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants or other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men. “There is so much literature—and very good scholarship—on Judaism and gender, but the majority of that literature reflects an interest in women. A hearty thank you to Sarah Imhoff for writing the other half of the story and for doing it so elegantly.” —Claire Elise Katz, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism “Invariably lucid and engaging, Sarah Imhoff provides a secure foundation for how religion shaped American masculinity and how masculinity shaped American Judaism in the early twentieth century.” —Judith Gerson, author of By Thanksgiving We Were Americans: German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Memory
The Price of Whiteness
Author: Eric L. GoldsteinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. The book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms. American Jewish history is often told as a story of quick and successful adaptation, but Goldstein demonstrates how the process of identifying as white Americans was an ambivalent one, filled with hard choices and conflicting emotions for Jewish immigrants and their children. Jews enjoyed a much greater level of social inclusion than African Americans, but their membership in white America was frequently made contingent on their conformity to prevailing racial mores and on the eradication of their perceived racial distinctiveness. While Jews consistently sought acceptance as whites, their tendency to express their own group bonds through the language of "race" led to deep misgivings about what was required of them. Today, despite the great success Jews enjoy in the United States, they still struggle with the constraints of America's black-white dichotomy. The Price of Whiteness concludes that while Jews' status as white has opened many doors for them, it has also placed limits on their ability to assert themselves as a group apart.
The "Jew" in Cinema
Author: Omer BartovPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217455
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Explores cinematic representations of the "Jew" from film's early days to the present.