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Jewish cultural studies, Vol. 1

Simon J. Bronner
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Note on Transliteration (page xiii)
  • Introduction: The Chutzpah of Jewish Cultural Studies (SIMON J. BRONNER, page 1)
  • PART I EXPRESSION
    • 1 The Red String: The Cultural History of a Jewish Folk Symbol (ELLY TEMAN, page 29)
    • 2 A Synagogue in Olyka: Architecture and Legends (SERGEY R. KRAVTSOV, page 58)
    • 3 Yiddish in the Aftermath: Speech Community and Cultural Continuity in Displaced Persons Camps (MIRIAM ISAACS, page 85)
    • 4 'National Dignity' and 'Spiritual Reintegration': The Discovery and Presentation of Jewish Folk Music in Germany (JASCHA NEMTSOV, page 105)
  • PART II IDENTITY
    • 5 'Take Down Mezuzahs, Remove Name-Plates': The Emigration of Objects from Germany to Palestine (JOACHIM SCHLÖR, page 133)
    • 6 Holocaust Narratives and their Impact: Personal Identification and Communal Roles (HANNAH KLIGER, BEA HOLLANDER-GOLDFEIN, and EMILIE S. PASSOW, page 151)
    • 7 Ambivalence and Identity in Russian Jewish Cinema (OLGA GERSHENSON, page 175)
    • 8 The Delicatessen as an Icon of Secular Jewishness (TED MERWIN, page 195)
  • PART III REPRESENTATION
    • 9 Hasidism versus Zionism as Remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the Two World Wars (ILANA ROSEN, page 213)
    • 10 The Sublimity of the Jewish Type: Balzac's Belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene aux Camélias (JUDITH LEWIN, page 239)
    • 11 As Goyish as Lime Jell-O? Jack Benny and the American Construction of Jewishness (HOLLY A. PEARSE, page 272)
    • 12 Jewish Coding: Cultural Studies and Jewish American Cinema (MIKEL J. KOVEN, page 291)
  • Contributors (page 311)
  • Index (page 317)
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
ISBN(s)
  • 9781909821019 (ebook)
  • 9781904113454 (paper)
Series
  • Jewish Cultural Studies
Subject
  • Jewish Studies
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