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

Contributor(s): Series: Graven images (Lanham, Md.)Publisher: Lanham : LEXINGTON BOOKS, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (viii, 337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739174470 (electronic bk.)
  • 0739174479 (electronic bk.)
Contained works:
  • Koltun-Fromm, Ken, authenticity, vision, culture: Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith [editor of compilation.]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thinking Jewish culture in AmericaDDC classification:
  • 305.892/4073 23
LOC classification:
  • BM205 .K66 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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"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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