Thinking Jewish culture in America /

Thinking Jewish culture in America / edited by Ken Koltun-Fromm. - 1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) - Graven images . - Graven images (Lanham, Md.) .

"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:

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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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies


United States--Civilization--Jewish influences--Congresses.


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