Imagining Jewish authenticity: vision and text in American Jewish thought /

Koltun-Fromm, Ken,

Imagining Jewish authenticity: vision and text in American Jewish thought / Ken Koltun-Fromm. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: visual authenticity in the American Jewish imaginary -- The anxiety of authenticity in image and text -- Seeing Israel in Bernard Rosenblatt's social Zionism -- Seeing things in Abraham Joshua Heschel's the Sabbath -- Seeing food in the Jewish home beautiful and Kosher by design -- The language of Jewish bodies in Michael Wyschogrod's the Body of Faith -- The language of gendered bodies in Rachel Adler's Engendering Judaism -- The language of racial bodies in Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's The Colors of Jews -- Conclusion: imagining Jewish authenticity in every generation.

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Judaism--United States.
Jews--Identity.--United States
Jews--Intellectual life.--United States
Metaphor.
Jews--Identity.
Jews--Intellectual life.
Judaism.
Metaphor.
RELIGION / Judaism / General


United States.


Electronic books.

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