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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795913903321

Titolo

Jews at home : the domestication of identity / / edited by Simon J. Bronner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2010

ISBN

1-80034-034-6

1-78694-986-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Jewish cultural studies ; ; 2

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

296.7

Soggetti

Jewish families - Conduct of life

Jewish families - Religious life

Home - Religious aspects - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Nov 2019).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The dualities of house and home in Jewish culture / Simon J. Bronner -- The domestication of urban Jewish space and the North-West London eruv / Jennifer Cousineau -- Every wise woman shoppeth for her house: the sisterhood gift shop and the American Jewish home in the mid-twentieth century / Joellyn Wallen Zollman -- Reimagining home, rethinking sukkah: rabbinic discourse and its contemporary implications / Marjorie Lehman -- From sacred symbol to key ring: the ḥamsa in Jewish and Israeli societies / Shalom Sabar -- 770 Eastern Parkway: the Rebbe's home as icon / Gabrielle A. Berlinger -- From the nightclub to the living room: gender, ethnicity, and upward mobility in the 1950s party records of three Jewish women comics / Giovanna P. Del Negro -- Samuel Rawet's Wandering Jew: Jewish-Brazilian monologues of home and displacement / Rosana Kohl Bines -- Home in the Pampas: Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish gauchos / Mónica Szurmuk -- Domesticity and the home (page): blogging and the blurring of public and private among Orthodox Jewish women / Andrea Lieber -- Culture mavens: feeling at home in America / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- At home in the world / David Kraemer -- The co-construction of Europe as a Jewish home / Joachim Schlör -- Reflections on 'Culture



Mavens' from an Australian Jewish perspective / Suzanne D. Rutland -- There's no place like home: America, Israel, and the (mixed) blessings of assimilation / Michael P. Kramer --The last word: a response / Jenna Weissman Joselit.

Sommario/riassunto

A multifaceted exploration of what makes a home 'Jewish', materially and emotionally, and of what it takes to make Jews feel 'at home' in their environment.