Thinking Jewish culture in America /
Thinking Jewish culture in America /
edited by Ken Koltun-Fromm.
- 1 online resource (viii, 337 pages)
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"All eleven essays have their roots in a symposium held at Haverford College in May, 2011"--Introduction
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jewish peoplehood and the nationalist paradigm in American Jewish culture / Otherness and liberal democratic solidarity: Buber, Kaplan, Levinas and Rorty's social hope / Philip Rieff's "Jew of culture" and the ends of higher education in America / Reading a book like an object: the case of The Jewish Catalog / Beyond the chasm: religion and literature after the Holocaust / Celan's Holocaust: the scene of instruction for America / Aura and the "spiritual in art" in the age of digital reproduction / A personal partnership with God: Abraham Joshua Heschel's pragmatic theodicy / "An ethic of suffering": J.B. Soloveitchik as pragmatist / Intersubjectivity meets maternity: Buber, Levinas, and the eclipsed relation / Authenticity, vision, culture: Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith / Thinking Jewish culture in America / Ken Koltun-Fromm -- Noam Pianko -- Akiba Lerner -- Gregory Kaplan -- Ari Y Kelman -- Claire E. Sugrin -- Leonard V. Kaplan -- Zachary Braiterman -- Einat Ramon -- Jessica Rosenberg -- Mara H. Benjamin -- Ken Koltun-Fromm -- Arnold Eisen. Introduction / Postscript:
Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies.
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Judaism--United States--Congresses.
Jews--Identity--United States--Congresses.
Jews--Intellectual life--United States--Congresses.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States--Congresses.
Judaïsme--États-Unis--Congrès.
Juifs--Identité--États-Unis--Congrès.
Juifs--Vie intellectuelle--États-Unis--Congrès.
Juifs--Acculturation--États-Unis--Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Civilization--Jewish influences.
Jews--Cultural assimilation.
Jews--Identity.
Jews--Intellectual life.
Judaism.
United States--Civilization--Jewish influences--Congresses.
États-Unis--Civilisation--Influence juive--Congrès.
United States.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
BM205 / .K66 2013eb
305.892/4073
"All eleven essays have their roots in a symposium held at Haverford College in May, 2011"--Introduction
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jewish peoplehood and the nationalist paradigm in American Jewish culture / Otherness and liberal democratic solidarity: Buber, Kaplan, Levinas and Rorty's social hope / Philip Rieff's "Jew of culture" and the ends of higher education in America / Reading a book like an object: the case of The Jewish Catalog / Beyond the chasm: religion and literature after the Holocaust / Celan's Holocaust: the scene of instruction for America / Aura and the "spiritual in art" in the age of digital reproduction / A personal partnership with God: Abraham Joshua Heschel's pragmatic theodicy / "An ethic of suffering": J.B. Soloveitchik as pragmatist / Intersubjectivity meets maternity: Buber, Levinas, and the eclipsed relation / Authenticity, vision, culture: Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith / Thinking Jewish culture in America / Ken Koltun-Fromm -- Noam Pianko -- Akiba Lerner -- Gregory Kaplan -- Ari Y Kelman -- Claire E. Sugrin -- Leonard V. Kaplan -- Zachary Braiterman -- Einat Ramon -- Jessica Rosenberg -- Mara H. Benjamin -- Ken Koltun-Fromm -- Arnold Eisen. Introduction / Postscript:
Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies.
9780739174470 (electronic bk.) 0739174479 (electronic bk.) 0739174479 (electronic) 1306206146 (ebk) 9781306206143 (ebk)
551865 MIL
Judaism--United States--Congresses.
Jews--Identity--United States--Congresses.
Jews--Intellectual life--United States--Congresses.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States--Congresses.
Judaïsme--États-Unis--Congrès.
Juifs--Identité--États-Unis--Congrès.
Juifs--Vie intellectuelle--États-Unis--Congrès.
Juifs--Acculturation--États-Unis--Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Civilization--Jewish influences.
Jews--Cultural assimilation.
Jews--Identity.
Jews--Intellectual life.
Judaism.
United States--Civilization--Jewish influences--Congresses.
États-Unis--Civilisation--Influence juive--Congrès.
United States.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
BM205 / .K66 2013eb
305.892/4073