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Divergent Jewish cultures Israel and America

Title
Divergent Jewish cultures [electronic resource] : Israel and America / edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen.
ISBN
030013021X
9780300130218
0300084269
9780300084269
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 358 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
Two creative centres 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. Using examples from literature, art, history, and politics, this book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty per cent of the world's Jewish population have created separate identities and cultures.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Divergent Jewish cultures. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2019
Series
Studies in Jewish culture and society.
Studies in Jewish culture and society
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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