Thinking Jewish culture in America / edited by Ken Koltun-Fromm.

"All eleven essays have their roots in a symposium held at Haverford College in May, 2011"--Introduction

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ken Koltun-Fromm -- Jewish peoplehood and the nationalist paradigm in American Jewish culture / Noam Pianko -- Otherness and liberal democratic solidarity: Buber, Kaplan, Levinas and Rorty's social hope / Akiba Lerner -- Philip Rieff's "Jew of culture" and the ends of higher education in America / Gregory Kaplan -- Reading a book like an object: the case of The Jewish Catalog / Ari Y Kelman -- Beyond the chasm: religion and literature after the Holocaust / Claire E. Sugrin -- Celan's Holocaust: the scene of instruction for America / Leonard V. Kaplan -- Aura and the "spiritual in art" in the age of digital reproduction / Zachary Braiterman -- A personal partnership with God: Abraham Joshua Heschel's pragmatic theodicy / Einat Ramon -- "An ethic of suffering": J.B. Soloveitchik as pragmatist / Jessica Rosenberg -- Intersubjectivity meets maternity: Buber, Levinas, and the eclipsed relation / Mara H. Benjamin -- Authenticity, vision, culture: Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith / Ken Koltun-Fromm -- Postscript: Thinking Jewish culture in America / Arnold Eisen.

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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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