Imagining Jewish authenticity: vision and text in American Jewish thought - Koltun-Fromm, Ken (Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2015)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Judaism -- United States; Jews -- United States -- Identity; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life; Metaphor; Jews -- Identity; Jews -- Intellectual life; Judaism; Metaphor; United States; RELIGION / Judaism / General; Electronic books