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Forging Modern Jewish Identiti: Public Faces and Private Struggles
Contributor(s): Tananbaum, Susan (Editor), Bloom, Sam (Editor), Berkowitz, Michael (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0853034559     ISBN-13: 9780853034551
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
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Published: April 2003
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Annotation: Forging Modern Jewish Identities illuminates facets of modern Jewish identity through engagement with diverse historical moments, political and social currents and literature as an aspect of popular culture. This volume is distinctive, and it can be enjoyed by the general reader as well as having potential as a teaching tool, as the experience of Jewry in the United States, Britain, Central and Western Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union is addressed by experts in each of these fields. Its introduction places the volume within the burgeoning genre of anthologies that constitutes a significant - but little noticed - development in Jewish and ethnic-national historiography. Cutting across disciplinary and national boundaries, the articles highlight Jewry's encounter with modernity from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. While acknowledging the power of acculturation, each of the contributions details how Jews transformed themselves, individually and communally, while res

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Jewish Studies
Dewey: 305.892
LCCN: 2002074075
Series: Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies
Physical Information: 293 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
 
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Forging Modern Jewish Identities illuminates facets of modern Jewish identity through engagement with diverse historical moments, political and social currents and literature as an aspect of popular culture. This volume is distinctive, and it can be enjoyed by the general reader as well as having potential as a teaching tool, as the experience of Jewry in the United States, Britain, Central and Western Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union is addressed by experts in each of these fields. Its introduction places the volume within the burgeoning genre of anthologies that constitutes a significant - but little noticed - development in Jewish and ethnic-national historiography. Cutting across disciplinary and national boundaries, the articles highlight Jewry's encounter with modernity from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. While acknowledging the power of acculturation, each of the contributions details how Jews transformed themselves, individually and communally, while reshaping notions of Jewish community and what it means to be a Jew in the modern world.
 
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