Jewish Cultural Studies – serie
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6 produkter
Jewishness
Expression, Identity and Representation
Häftad, 2008
498 kr
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The Jewish Cultural Studies series offers a contemporary view of Jewish culture around the globe. Multidisciplinary, multi-focused, and eclectic, it covers the cultural practices of secular Jews as well as of religious Jews of all persuasions, and from historical as well as contemporary …
Jews at Home
The Domestication of Identity
Häftad, 2010
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For a Jew, describing a place as 'home' conveys connotations of heritage as well as of residence. Additionally, feeling 'at home' suggests a sense of comfort in one's social surroundings. The questions at the heart of this volume are: what things make a home 'Jewish', materially and emotionally, …
Revisioning Ritual
Jewish Traditions in Transition
Häftad, 2011
531 kr
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Often overlooked as routine or even dismissed as odd customs, ritual in its many guises demands attention as a central strategy for embodying experience. Like other groups, Jews rely on ritual to provide an inventory of social meanings and a context for negotiating the challenges of everyday life. …
Framing Jewish Culture
Boundaries and Representations
Häftad, 2014
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Modernity offers people choices about who they want to be and how they want to appear to others. The way in which Jews choose to frame their identity establishes the dynamic of their social relations with other Jews and non-Jews - a dynamic complicated by how non-Jews position the boundaries around …
Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination
Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 5
Av Marjorie Lehman, Jane L. Kanarek m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
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National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies, 2017.The ‘Jewish mother’ figure is a hallmark of Jewish culture, one which appears in the works of rabbis, artists, poets, and activists across time and place. While depictions of mothers and motherhood abound in …
Connected Jews
Expressions of Community in Analogue and Digital Culture
Av Simon J. Bronner, Caspar Battegay
Häftad, 2018
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How Jews use media to connect with one another has profound consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. This volume explores how the use of media can both create communities and divide them because of how different media shape actions and project anxieties, conflicts, and emotions. …
