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Record Nr.

UNINA9910742495203321

Autore

Nicholls Anthony J. S

Titolo

Negotiating masculinity and identity as a Jewish British male : young Jews talking / / Anthony J. S. Nicholls

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-38107-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 201 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

296.071

Soggetti

Jewish men - Great Britain

Jews - Great Britain - Identity

Masculinity - Religious aspects - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Mapping the Terrain -- Chapter 2: You'll be a man, my son. What does that mean?- Chapter 3: Keeping the faith. So, I'm Jewish, so what?- Chapter 4: Rule Britannia. This blessed plot, this England -- Chapter 5: Into the Mix -- Chapter 6: Onwards and Upwards.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Dr. Anthony Nicholls uses a series of in-depth interviews to investigate how young Jews talk about their Jewishness, Britishness, and masculinity. From his analysis, he argues that Jewishness is constructed between adherence to halachic requirement on one hand, and Jewishness experienced as cultural affinity to history, family, and tradition without recourse to halacha on the other hand. He further argues that Britishness is experienced between varying degrees of nationalistic localism against cosmopolitan liberalism played out against a backdrop of Britain contrasted with the rest of the world, and also London against the rest of Britain. Nicholls rejects the view that masculinity is constructed in the inherently unstable terms of physicality against intellectualism. Instead, he argues that it is better considered as lying in a range between competitive hegemonic masculinity and a cooperative model with which physicality and intellectualism combine to produce a more stable and emotionally satisfying mode of living.