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Jewish culture and Jewish memory

Dialectical Anthropology, 1983
"American Jewish Culture," considered merely as a phrase, is as problematic say as "Freudian Literary Criticism," which I recall once comparing to the Holy Roman Empire: not holy, not Roman, not an empire; not Freudian, not literary, not criticism. Much that is herded together under the rubric of Ameri?
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Jewish Culture and Creativity

2023
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Writing Jewish Culture

2016
Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature ...
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"Wait, Are You Jewish?": Jewish Culture on Campus

2019
With a number of recent high-profile anti-Jewish hate incidents on college campuses and across the United States, a deeper understanding of Jewish student culture is necessary for practitioners and scholars to better understand Jewish students. The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of Jewish college students’ perspectives on Jewish ...
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The Jewishness of American Culture

Reviews in American History, 2001
In his collected essays on literature and Jewish identity, Fiedler on the Roof (1991), Leslie Fiedler recounts the various escape routes he took in his flight from the urban ethnic values of his upbringing. Seeking to identify himself with authentically "American" culture, he gravitated first toward the elite "goyish critical establishment" of literary
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The Jewish Vanguard

The Jewish Vanguard brings to light a spirited cultural moment when Jewish writers and artists were at the forefront of the avant-garde. Blending literary theory, cultural history, and Jewish studies, this book reveals how these figures reimagined identity, politics, and tradition through radical artistic and intellectual experimentation. From mystical
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The Jewish Cultural Complex

Psychological Perspectives, 2014
Although 70 years have passed since the Nazi Holocaust, the aftereffects resulting from it and centuries of Jewish oppression persist in Jewish tribal identity and in the mechanisms for its survival. In much the same way that PTSD affects individuals who have suffered life-threatening situations, a history of collective trauma has produced within ...
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