Research Catalog

Title

Jewishness : expression, identity, and representation / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bronner, Simon J.

Description

xii, 320 p. : ill., map, music; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• The Littman library of Jewish civilization
• Jewish cultural studies ; v. 1

Uniform Title

• Jewish cultural studies v. 1.
• Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Subject

• Jews > Identity
• Jews > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The red string: the cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol / Elly Teman -- A synagogue in Olyka: architecture and legends / Sergey R. Kravtsov -- Yiddish in the aftermath: speech community and cultural continuity in displaced persons camps / Miriam Isaacs -- 'National dignity' and 'spiritual reintegration': the discovery and presentation of Jewish folk music in Germany / Jascha Nemtsov -- 'Take down mezuzahs, remove name-plates': the emigration of objects from Germany to Palestine / Joachim Schlör -- Holocaust narratives and their impact: personal identification and communal roles / Hannah Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie S. Passow -- Ambivalence and identity in Russian Jewish cinema / Olga Gershenson -- The delicatessen as an icon of secular Jewishness / Ted Merwin -- Hasidism versus Zionism as remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the two World Wars / Ilana Rosen -- The sublimity of the Jewish type: Balzac's Belle juive as virgin Magdalene aux camélias / Judith Lewin -- As goyish as lime Jell-O?: Jack Benny and the American construction of Jewishness / Holly A. Pearse -- Jewish coding: cultural studies and Jewish American cinema / Mikel J. Koven.

ISBN

• 9781904113454
• 1904113451

LCCN

^^2007038123

OCLC

• 173248946
• SCSB-11045910

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library