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Doubting the Devout : The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination / Nora L Rubel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and American CulturePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231141871
  • 9780231512589
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.48296832
LOC classification:
  • BM205 .R83 2010
  • BM205 .R83 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Family Feud -- 1. Orthodoxy and Nostalgia in the American Jewish Imagination -- 2. Rebbes' Daughters: The New Chosen -- 3. The New Jewish Gothic -- 4. Muggers in Black Coats 109 -- Conclusion: They Are Us in Other Clothes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war between America's ultra-Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews, one that has found a particularly creative voice in literature, media, and film.Unpacking the work of Allegra Goodman, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Erich Segal, Anne Roiphe, and others, as well as television shows and films such as A Price Above Rubies, Nora L. Rubel investigates the choices non-haredi Jews have made as they represent the character and characters of ultra-Orthodox Jews. In these artistic and aesthetic acts, Rubel recasts the war over gender and family and the anxieties over acculturation, Americanization, and continuity. More than just a study of Jewishness and Jewish self-consciousness, Doubting the Devout will speak to any reader who has struggled to balance religion, family, and culture.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Family Feud -- 1. Orthodoxy and Nostalgia in the American Jewish Imagination -- 2. Rebbes' Daughters: The New Chosen -- 3. The New Jewish Gothic -- 4. Muggers in Black Coats 109 -- Conclusion: They Are Us in Other Clothes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war between America's ultra-Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews, one that has found a particularly creative voice in literature, media, and film.Unpacking the work of Allegra Goodman, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Erich Segal, Anne Roiphe, and others, as well as television shows and films such as A Price Above Rubies, Nora L. Rubel investigates the choices non-haredi Jews have made as they represent the character and characters of ultra-Orthodox Jews. In these artistic and aesthetic acts, Rubel recasts the war over gender and family and the anxieties over acculturation, Americanization, and continuity. More than just a study of Jewishness and Jewish self-consciousness, Doubting the Devout will speak to any reader who has struggled to balance religion, family, and culture.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)