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Divergent Jewish cultures [[electronic resource] ] : Israel and America / / edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen



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Titolo: Divergent Jewish cultures [[electronic resource] ] : Israel and America / / edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina: 956.9405
Soggetto topico: Jews - United States - Identity
Jews - United States - Attitudes toward Israel
Jews - United States - Social life and customs
Jews - Israel - Identity
Israel and the diaspora
Soggetto geografico: Israel Civilization
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: MooreDeborah Dash <1946->  
TroenS. Ilan <1940-> (Selwyn Ilan)  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The construction of a secular Jewish identity / S. Ilan Troen -- Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler -- Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography /Yoram Bilu -- Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. Wenger -- Imagining Europe / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The Shoah as Israel's political trope / Gulie Ne'eman Arad -- "I am other" / Nurith Gertz -- "A drastically bifurcated legacy" / Tresa Grauer -- The impact of statehood on the Hebrew literary imagination / Arnold J. Band -- Becoming ethnic, becoming American / Ewa Morawska -- Strangers no longer / Ira Katznelson -- Changing places, changing cultures / Daniel J. Elazar -- Epilogue on living in two cultures / Arthur Aryeh Goren.
Sommario/riassunto: Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty percent of the world's Jewish population have created separate identities and cultures.Using examples from literature, art, history, and politics, leading Israeli and American scholars focus on the political, social, and memory cultures of their two communities, considering in particular the American Jewish challenge to diaspora consciousness and the Israeli struggle to forge a secular, national Jewish identity. At the same time, they seek to understand how a sense of mutual responsibility and fate animates American and Israeli Jews who reside in distant places, speak different languages, and live within different political and social worlds.
Titolo autorizzato: Divergent Jewish cultures  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-72215-4
9786611722159
0-300-13021-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452344303321
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Serie: Studies in Jewish culture and society.