1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003279280403321

Autore

Censis

Titolo

Reti terziarie ed economie locali : il caso di Pistoia / Censis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Franco Angeli, 1983

Edizione

[1. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

174 p.

Locazione

DECGE

Collocazione

051.006.CEN

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

2 copie

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467638003321

Autore

Krah Markus

Titolo

American Jewry and the re-invention of the East European Jewish past / / Markus Krah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

3-11-049714-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

909.04924

Soggetti

Jews - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Search for New Modes of Jewishness in Postwar



America -- 2. Launching a Discourse: YIVO’s Bridge From the Old World to the New -- 3. New (York) Jewish Intellectuals: The Past as Culture -- 4. Religious Culture as an Antidote to Liberal Judaism and Secular Jewishness -- 5. Spiritual Needs, the Past, and the Denominational Landscape -- 6. From East European Radicalism to Postwar American Progressivism -- 7. Presenting a Rich Jewish Culture: The Eternal Light and Life Is with People -- 8. Making Jewishness Meaningful: In School and in Hasidism -- 9. Tevye in Kasrilevke, the Fiddler in America: East European Jewishness in Literature -- 10. Conclusion: Re-Inventing Jewishness Out of Memory -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The postwar decades were not the “golden era” in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day.