02869nam 2200601 450 991078735860332120230807212657.00-253-01579-0(CKB)3710000000347838(EBL)1925979(SSID)ssj0001421231(PQKBManifestationID)12615891(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001421231(PQKBWorkID)11409862(PQKB)10559327(MiAaPQ)EBC1925979(OCoLC)902846828(MdBmJHUP)muse44762(Au-PeEL)EBL1925979(CaPaEBR)ebr11009938(EXLCZ)99371000000034783820150204h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImagining Jewish authenticity vision and text in American Jewish thought /Ken Koltun-FrommBloomington, Indiana :Indiana University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-01570-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: visual authenticity in the American Jewish imaginary -- The anxiety of authenticity in image and text -- Seeing Israel in Bernard Rosenblatt's social Zionism -- Seeing things in Abraham Joshua Heschel's the Sabbath -- Seeing food in the Jewish home beautiful and Kosher by design -- The language of Jewish bodies in Michael Wyschogrod's the Body of Faith -- The language of gendered bodies in Rachel Adler's Engendering Judaism -- The language of racial bodies in Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's The Colors of Jews -- Conclusion: imagining Jewish authenticity in every generation.<P>Exploring how visual media presents claims to Jewish authenticity, Imagining Jewish Authenticity argues that Jews imagine themselves and their place within America by appealing to a graphic sensibility. Ken Koltun-Fromm traces how American Jewish thinkers capture Jewish authenticity, and lingering fears of inauthenticity, in and through visual discourse and opens up the subtle connections between visual expectations, cultural knowledge, racial belonging, embodied identity, and the ways images and texts work together.</P>JudaismUnited StatesJewsUnited StatesIdentityJewsUnited StatesIntellectual lifeMetaphorJudaismJewsIdentity.JewsIntellectual life.Metaphor.296.0973Koltun-Fromm Ken1472614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787358603321Imagining Jewish authenticity3741739UNINA