The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Valman, Nadia; Roth, Laurence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:How the individual terms "e;Jewish"e; and "e;culture"e; are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies.How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks.Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures.With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135048549
• Artikelnr.: 41690132

Autorenporträt

Laurence Roth is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Susquehanna University, USA. Nadia Valman is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Defining Terms: Disciplinary Perspectives 1. Anthropology
Misha Klein 2. Music
Judah M. Cohen 3. Literary Studies
Marc Caplan 4. Sociology
Ben Gidley 5. Religious Studies
Andrea Lieber 6. History
Klaus Hödl 7. Art History
Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver 8. Film
Television
and New Media Studies
Nathan Abrams Part 2: Theorizing Contemporary Jewish Cultures 9. Power
Michael Rothberg 10. Textuality
Devorah Baum 11. Religious/Secular
Naomi Seidman 12. Memory
Nils Roemer 13. Bodies
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 14. Spaces
Barbara E. Mann 15. Networks
Laurence Roth Part 3: Case Studies in Contemporary Jewish Cultures 16. "Jewface" and "Jewfaçade" in Poland
Spain
and Birobidzhan
S.I. Salamensky 17. Television Blackface: Jews
Race and Comedy in the UK and Australia
Jon Stratton 18. Mizrahi/Arab/Israeli/Queer: The Cultural Politics of Dana International
Ted Swedenburg 19. Jewish News Making: Imagining Audiences in the Turkish Public Sphere
Marcy Brink-Danan 20. The Idea of Yiddish: Re-globalizing North American Jewish Culture
Amelia Glaser 21. Yiddish and Multilingual Urban Space in Montreal
Sherry Simon 22. Pop
Piety
and Modernity: The Changing Spaces of Orthodox Culture
Abigail Wood 23. Seeing and Being in Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Dress
Jonathan S. Marion 24. Life Drawing: Autobiography
Comics
Jewish Women
Sarah Lightman 25. Playing with History: Jewish Subjectivity in Contemporary Lens Based Art
Rachel Garfield 26. Scoreboard: Sports and American Jewish Identities
David J. Leonard 27. Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA
Culture
and Historical Narrative
Yulia Egorova 28. Jewish Spirituality and Late Capitalism
Ayala Fader