LEADER 04313nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910790845303321 005 20230126203701.0 010 $a1-61811-102-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618111029 035 $a(CKB)2550000001165249 035 $a(EBL)3110479 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000888218 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12384724 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000888218 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10848060 035 $a(PQKB)11301811 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110479 035 $a(DE-B1597)540927 035 $a(OCoLC)797833312 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618111029 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110479 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10567535 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL546523 035 $a(OCoLC)922977859 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001165249 100 $a20120109d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStrictly kosher reading$b[electronic resource] $epopular literature and the condition of contemporary Orthodoxy /$fYoel Finkelman 210 $aBoston $cAcademic Studies Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aJewish identities in post modern society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-936235-37-4 311 $a1-306-15272-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface: The Gehinom Trio at Slime's Bar -- $tChapter I: ArtScroll Judaism: Haredi Popular Literature in Context -- $tChapter II: "Ancient Wisdom": Haredi Popular Literature and General Culture -- $tChapter III: "Not Absolute Truth": Haredi Writers Debate Their Own Acculturation -- $tChapter IV: "There Was Only One Man in the Shtetl...": Haredi Judaism's Founding Myth -- $tChapter V: "Knowledge of the Clearest and Most Objective Kind": Simple Faith and Haredi Popular Theology -- $tChapter VI: "We Have Been Influenced...": The Rhetoric of Haredi Internal Criticism -- $tChapter VII: Truth, Fiction, and Narrative -- $tEndnotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFor centuries, fervently observant Jewish communities have produced thousands of works of Jewish law, thought, and spirituality. But in recent decades, the literature of America's Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] community has taken on brand-new forms: selfhelp books, cookbooks, monthly magazines, parenting guides, biographies, picture books, even adventure stories and spy novels- all produced by Haredi men and women, for the Haredi readership. What's changed? Why did these works appear, and what do they mean to the community that produces and consumes them? How has the Haredi world, as it seeks fidelity to unchanging tradition, so radically changed what it writes and what it reads? In answering these questions, Strictly Kosher Reading points to a central paradox in contemporary Haredi life. Haredi Jewry sets itself apart, claiming to reject modern secular culture as dangerous and threatening to everything Torah stands for. But in practice, Haredi popular literature reveals a community thoroughly embedded in contemporary values. Popular literature plays a critical role in helping Haredi Jews to understand themselves as different, even as it shows them to be very much the same. 410 0$aJewish identities in post modern society. 606 $aUltra-Orthodox Jews$xIntellectual life 606 $aPopular culture$xInfluence 606 $aOrthodox Judaism$xSocial aspects 606 $aOrthodox Judaism$xRelations$xNontraditional Jews 606 $aJews$xCultural assimilation 606 $aJudaism and culture 606 $aJudaism and literature 615 0$aUltra-Orthodox Jews$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aPopular culture$xInfluence. 615 0$aOrthodox Judaism$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aOrthodox Judaism$xRelations$xNontraditional Jews. 615 0$aJews$xCultural assimilation. 615 0$aJudaism and culture. 615 0$aJudaism and literature. 676 $a296.832 700 $aFinkelman$b Yoel$01522172 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790845303321 996 $aStrictly kosher reading$93761747 997 $aUNINA