Strictly Kosher Reading

Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy

AvYoel Finkelman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

In every Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] neighbourhood today, bookstores overflow with an expansive variety of popular titles written by and for Haredi Jews. "Strictly Kosher Reading" offers a close reading of contemporary Haredi fiction, self-help, history, and popular theology, explaining how this isolationist religious community constructs its complex and paradoxical relationship with contemporary culture. Like isolationist religious groups throughout the world, Haredi Jews, as reflected in their popular literature, struggle to remain distinctive in a culture they find both frightening and attractive. Haredi popular literature sets up sharp boundaries between Haredi Jews and others. Yet, the same literature simultaneously undermines and blurs those boundaries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-08-18
Mått:155 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781936235377

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Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Yoel Finkelman (Ph.D. Hebrew University) is a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He teaches Talmud and Jewish Thought at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem, and is the Director of Projects and Research at ATID, a Jerusalem-based organization that provides resources and training for Jewish educational leadership.

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"Yoel Finkelman presents a penetrating and fascinating analysis of the ways in which American “haredi” (“ultraorthodox”) writers and educators use the broader culture to create and maintain clear boundaries between themselves and the outside society and culture. With acute observations and a very effective writing style, this book is for anyone interested in the areas of American Orthodox Judaism, Jewish education, religion and media, as well as the broader social scientific area of culture and cognition."

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