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Koltun-Fromm, Ken,

Imagining Jewish authenticity : vision and text in American Jewish thought / Ken Koltun-Fromm. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Exploring how visual media presents claims to Jewish authenticity, Imagining Jewish Authenticity argues that Jews imagine themselves and their place within America by appealing to a graphic sensibility. Ken Koltun-Fromm traces how American Jewish thinkers capture Jewish authenticity, and lingering fears of inauthenticity, in and through visual discourse and opens up the subtle connections between visual expectations, cultural knowledge, racial belonging, embodied identity, and the ways images and texts work together.


English.

ISBN: 9780253015792 0253015790

Source: 22573/ctt16gkpkd JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Judaism--United States.
Jews--Identity.--United States
Jews--Intellectual life.--United States
Metaphor.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Judaism.
Judaïsme--États-Unis.
Juifs--Identité.--États-Unis
Juifs--Vie intellectuelle.--États-Unis
Métaphore.
metaphor.
RELIGION--Judaism--General.
RELIGION--Judaism--Rituals & Practice.
Jews--Identity
Jews--Intellectual life
Judaism
Metaphor
Jüdische Philosophie
Ethnische Identität
Authentizität
Jüdische Literatur
Identität
Embodiment

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States
USA

LC Class. No.: BM205 / .K648 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 296.0973