Search Results - "American Jewish"

Divergent Jewish cultures Israel and America /

Table of Contents: “…Ilan Troen -- Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler -- Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography /Yoram Bilu -- Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. Wenger -- Imagining Europe / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The Shoah as Israel's political trope / Gulie Ne'eman Arad -- "I am other" / Nurith Gertz -- "A drastically bifurcated legacy" / Tresa Grauer -- The impact of statehood on the Hebrew literary imagination / Arnold J. …”
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Divergent Jewish cultures Israel and America /

Table of Contents: “…Ilan Troen -- Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler -- Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography /Yoram Bilu -- Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. Wenger -- Imagining Europe / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The Shoah as Israel's political trope / Gulie Ne'eman Arad -- "I am other" / Nurith Gertz -- "A drastically bifurcated legacy" / Tresa Grauer -- The impact of statehood on the Hebrew literary imagination / Arnold J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Impact of the Holocaust in America : The Jewish Role in American Life /

Table of Contents: “…From case file to testimony: reconstructing survivors' first years in America / Beth Cohen -- Survivors as teachers / Michael Berenbaum -- A Jewish perspective on the global economic revolution in a post-Holocaust world / Steven Windmueller -- Bringing the Holocaust to America / Richard Libowitz -- Imagining the Shoah in American third-generation cinema / Lawrence Baron -- Thou shalt teach it to thy children: what American Jewish children's literature teaches about the Holocaust / Peter J. …”
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The Impact of the Holocaust in America : The Jewish Role in American Life /

Table of Contents: “…From case file to testimony: reconstructing survivors' first years in America / Beth Cohen -- Survivors as teachers / Michael Berenbaum -- A Jewish perspective on the global economic revolution in a post-Holocaust world / Steven Windmueller -- Bringing the Holocaust to America / Richard Libowitz -- Imagining the Shoah in American third-generation cinema / Lawrence Baron -- Thou shalt teach it to thy children: what American Jewish children's literature teaches about the Holocaust / Peter J. …”
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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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