TY - BOOK AU - Koltun-Fromm,Ken AU - Koltun-Fromm,Ken TI - Thinking Jewish culture in America T2 - Graven images SN - 9780739174470 (electronic bk.) AV - BM205 .K66 2013eb U1 - 305.892/4073 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Lanham PB - LEXINGTON BOOKS KW - Judaism KW - United States KW - Congresses KW - Jews KW - Identity KW - Intellectual life KW - Cultural assimilation KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies KW - Civilization KW - Jewish influences KW - Electronic books N1 - "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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=676026 ER -