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The Chutzpah of Jewish Cultural Studies

2008
This introductory chapter provides an overview of Jewish cultural studies. In its formation, Jewish cultural studies is something of a hybrid of Jewish studies and cultural studies. For Jewish studies, Jewish cultural studies helps to contemporize and contextualize Jewish experience. And since the identity of Jewishness is often open to interpretation,
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Soviet Jewishness and Cultural Studies

Journal of Jewish Identities, 2011
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In 2009 Natan Sharansky, formerly an iconic Soviet refusenik and now an Israeli politician, was named chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the wing of the Israeli government historically charged with fostering Jewish immigration to Israel, traditionally known as aliya.
Olga Gershenson, David Shneer
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Jewish Culture Outside the Study Hall

Judaïsme Ancien - Ancient Judaism, 2020
La litterature juive apres la destruction du second Temple de Jerusalem jusqu’ a la periode byzantine (70-640 ce) etait majoritairement redigee par l’ elite rabbinique.
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Mapping the ‘New Jewish Cultural Studies’

History Workshop Journal, 2001
4 Perry Anderson, 'Renewals', New Left Review New series, 1, Jan.-Feb. 2000, p. 10. 5 Frederic Jameson, 'Five Theses on Actually Existing Marxism', in Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster (eds), In Defence of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda, New York, 1997, p. 175. 6 John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds), Consumption and the World of Goods,
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Jewish Coding:

2008
This chapter assesses the Jewishness of Hollywood film. It explores how Jewishness is encoded within specific key Jewish American films — films which, while made by Jewish American film-makers, are accessible to and indeed intended for a mainstream, and therefore not necessarily a Jewish, audience.
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German-Jewish Literature and Culture and the Field of German-Jewish Studies

2007
This chapter delineates the parameters of developments and relationships to the 'Jewish contribution discourse'. It notes the marginality of Jewish culture in present-day Germany that has enabled the emergence of the quintessential post-modern field of cultural studies in Germany and the basis for diverse criticism.
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Problems in the study of Jewish women’s folk culture

Contemporary Jewry, 1989
As long as Jewish intelligentsia persist in upholding the liberal paradigm, folklorists and anthropologists will not be interested in going back to the kitchen which we have ourselves just escaped, to seek out sources of female “empowerment.” We will be bewildered by our sisters who asbalot tishuva have voluntarily sought entrance into traditional ...
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Prolegomenon to the Study of Jewish Cultural History

2007
This chapter analyses the Jewish spirit. It approaches the cultural history of a traditional society, as Jewish society was everywhere until the onset of modernity, by examining the history of the interaction of a society and its members with their collective history. Nationalist-inspired scholarship produced a Jewish political history.
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