Authentically Jewish : Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition

• Autore: Charmé Stuart Z
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2022; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Identity; Jews - Social conditions - 21st century; Judaism - History - 21st century; Social perception - History - 21st century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• Soggetto non controllato: identity, culture, Judaism, Jewish people, communities, religion, belief, Jewish studies, Orthodox Judaism, Orhodox Jews, Liberals, liberalism, Liberal Jews, Liberal Judaism, secularism, secular, authenticity, authentic, struggle, genetics, ancestry, race, origin, diaspora, Zionist Jew, Zionism, Isreal, music, messianic Jews, messianic Judaism, Abrahamic religion, Christianity, folk dance, folk music, tradition, spirituality, Kabbalah, Ethopian Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Sepharidic Jews, Mizarhi Jews, lost tribes, Black Jews, multiculturalism, crypto-judaism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 7. Creating a National Jewish Culture in Israel -- 8. Shtetl Authenticity: From Fiddler on the Roof to the Revival of Klezmer -- 9. Becoming Jewish: Intermarriage and Conversion -- 10. Authentically Jewish Genes -- Part IV: Struggles over Authentication and Recognition -- 11. Lost Jewish Tribes in Ethiopia -- 12. Recognizing Black Jews in the United States -- 13. Authenticating Crypto-Jewish Identity -- 14. Newly Found Jews and the Regimes of Recognition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author ; Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Jewish Authenticity -- 1. The Changing Faces of Jewish Authenticity -- 2. Recognition and Authenticity: From Sartre to Multiculturalism -- Part II: Authentically Jewish Religion -- 3. Orthodoxy and the Authentic Jew -- 4. Reforming Jewish Tradition and the Spiritual Quest -- 5. The Experiential Authenticity of Jewish Meditation, Jewish Yoga, and Kabbalah -- 6. The Messianic Heresy and the Struggle for Authenticity -- Part III: Authentic Jewish Peoplehood
• Sommario/riassunto: This book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind conflicts over who and what should be recognized as authentically Jewish. Although the concept of authenticity has been around for several centuries, it became a central focus for Jews since existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre raised the question in the 1940s. Building on the work of Sartre, later Jewish thinkers, philosophers, anthropologists, and cultural theorists, the book offers a model of Jewish authenticity that seeks to balance history and tradition, creative freedom and innovation, and the importance of recognition among different groups within an increasingly multicultural Jewish community. Author Stuart Z. Charmé explores how debates over authenticity and struggles for recognition are a key to understanding a wide range of controversies between Orthodox and liberal Jews, Zionist and diaspora Jews, white Jews and Jews of color, as well as the status of intermarried and messianic Jews, and the impact of Jewish genetics. In addition, it discusses how and when various cultural practices and traditions such as klezmer music, Israeli folk dance, Jewish yoga and meditation, and others are recognized as authentically Jewish, or not.
• Titolo autorizzato: Authentically Jewish
• ISBN: 1-9788-2761-X; 1-9788-2762-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838325103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II