Jewish life and American culture / / Sylvia Barack Fishman

• Autore: Fishman Sylvia Barack <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8924073
• Soggetto topico: Jewish way of life; Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States; Judaism - United States - History - 20th century; Jews - United States - Identity
• Soggetto geografico: United States Ethnic relations
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-233) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Analyzing the Evidence -- Coalescing American and Jewish Values -- Tracing Educational and Occupational Patterns -- Learning about Jewish Education -- Educating for Jewish Living -- Forming Jewish Households and Families -- Observing Religious Environments in Jewish Homes -- Profiling Jewish Organizational Connections -- Negotiating both Sides of the Hyphen -- The Methodology of the National Jewish Population Survey -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions.Fishman introduces a new concept called coalescence, an adaptation technique through which Jews merge American and Jewish elements. Analyzing the increasingly permeable boundaries in the ethnic identity construction of Jewish and non-Jewish Americans, she suggests that during the process of coalescence, Jews combine the texts of American and Jewish cultures, losing track of their dissonance and perceiving them as a unified Jewish whole.The author generates data from diverse sources in the social sciences and humanities, including the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other statistical studies, interviews and focus groups, popular and material culture, literature and film, to demonstrate the pervasiveness of coalescence. The book pays special attention to gender issues and the relationship of women to their Jewish and American identities.A blend of lively narrative and scholarly detail, this book includes useful tables, accessible figures and models, and fascinating illustrations which present the educational, occupational, and behavioral patterns of American Jews, organizational profiles, family formation, religious observance, and the impact of Jewish education.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jewish life and American culture
• ISBN: 9780791492741; 0791492745
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967009703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II