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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453825403321

Titolo

Thinking Jewish culture in America / / edited by Ken Koltun-Fromm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-7447-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Graven Images

Altri autori (Persone)

Koltun-FrommKen

Disciplina

305.892/4073

Soggetti

Judaism - United States

Jews - United States - Identity

Jews - United States - Intellectual life

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

Electronic books.

United States Civilization Jewish influences Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I: About Culture; 1 Jewish Peoplehood and the Nationalist Paradigm in American Jewish Culture; 2 Otherness and Liberal Democratic Solidarity; 3 Philip Rieff's "Jew of Culture" and the Ends of Higher Education in America; 4 Reading a Book like an Object: The Case of The Jewish Catalog; Part II: Art, Literature, Culture; 5 Beyond the Chasm; 6 Celan's Holocaust; 7 Aura and the "Spiritual in Art" in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Part III: Theology and Culture; 8 A Personal Partnership With God; 9 "An Ethic of Suffering"; 10 Intersubjectivity Meets Maternity

11 Authenticity, Vision, CulturePostscript; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies.