The Trotskys, Freuds and Woody Allens
Author: Ivan Kalmar
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13:
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Coming Out Jewish
Author: Jon Stratton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 113459707X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike many Jews of our generation, Jon Stratton grew up in a family more concerned about assimilation than about preserving Jewish tradition. While he could easily 'pass' among non-Jews, he found himself increasingly torn between his fear of not belonging and a deeply-felt commitment to his family's past. Coming Out Jewish examines the unique challenge of constructing an identity amid the clash between ethnicity and conformity. For many Jews, the idea of full assimilation ended with the Holocaust. But the pressure to adapt to the mainstream, Stratton eloquently argues, remains powerful, especially for those with anglicized names, assimilationist parents, a history of recent immigration, or ambivalent experiences of themselves as Jews. With reference to the work of Daniel Boyarin, Ien Ang, and Homi Bhabha, among others, Stratton offers fresh analysis on a wide range of topics, including the Jewish origins of pluralism in the US, anti-Semitism in Germany, the Jewishness of sitcoms like Seinfeld, and the Yiddishization of American culture since World War II. More than a book about Jews and Jewishness, Coming Out Jewish smartly and accurately mines the Jewish experience in the West to give voice to the issues of migration, Diaspora, assimilation and identity that affect those, displaced and 'othered', around the world.
Judaism III
Author: Michael Tilly
Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
Published: 2020-04-28
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 3170325892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned experts cooperated in a singular academic enterprise to portray Judaism from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long-running book series "Die Religionen der Menschheit" (Religions of Humanity) presents for the first time a complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, always maintaining its strong and unique identity. Volume III completes this ambitious project with profound chapters on Modern Jewish Culture, Halakhah (Jewish Law), Jewish Languages, Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Literature, Feminism and Gender, and on Judaism and inter-faith relations.
White But Not Quite
Author: Kalmar, Ivan
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2022-04-20
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1529213622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the ‘migration crisis’ of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its ‘new’ Eastern members – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies. In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central European illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism, which arose from the area’s brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s. Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards ‘Eastern Europeans’ are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite.
In Search of American Jewish Culture
Author: Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781584651710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.
Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004
Author: Ben Furnish
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780820461977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews' departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene.
Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film
Author: Claudia Simone Dorchain
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 3110265133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of “self” and “other” and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept of “self” and “other” and its imaginary dichotomy is gaining more and more political impact in a world of resurfacing ideology-ridden conflicts. The essays deal with Jewish reality in contemporary Germany and its reflection in movies from the special point of view of cultural sciences, political sciences, and religious studies. This anthology presents challengingly new insights into topics rarely covered, such as youth culture or humor, and finally discusses the images of Jewish life as realities still to be constructed.
The Crime of My Very Existence
Author: Prof. Michael Berkowitz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-09-03
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0520940687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Crime of My Very Existence investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews, and extending into postwar Europe.
Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture
Author: J. Stratton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-06-09
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0230612741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture.
Carrying a Big Schtick
Author: Miriam Eve Mora
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2024-05-21
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0814349641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century. For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity. Depicted as weak, effeminate, cowardly, gentle, bookish, or conflict-averse, Jewish men have been ascribed these qualities by outside forces, but some have also intentionally subscribed themselves to masculinities at odds with the American mainstream. Carrying a Big Schtickdissects notions of Jewish masculinity and its perception and practice in America in the twentieth century through the lenses of immigration and cultural history. Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.
