Thinking Jewish culture in America - Koltun-Fromm, Ken; Koltun-Fromm, Ken (Lanham : LEXINGTON BOOKS, 2014)
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.
"All eleven essays have their roots in a symposium held at Haverford College in May, 2011."--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Judaism -- United States -- Congresses; Jews -- United States -- Identity -- Congresses; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life -- Congresses; United States -- Civilization -- Jewish influences -- Congresses; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States -- Congresses; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Electronic books