Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Rachel Gordan examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. Positive depictions of Jews in popular literature had a normalizing effect, while at the same time forging the notion of Judaism as an American religion distinct from Christianity but part of America's alleged "Judeo-Christian" heritage.
Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Rachel Gordan examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. Positive depictions of Jews in popular literature had a normalizing effect, while at the same time forging the notion of Judaism as an American religion distinct from Christianity but part of America's alleged "Judeo-Christian" heritage.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rachel Gordan is Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies and the Samuel "Bud" Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida. She has published articles in academic journals including Religion and American Culture, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, and Jewish Quarterly Review as well as outlets like the Forward, Tablet, Religion & Politics, the New York Jewish Week, and The New York Times.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Popularizing Judaism Chapter 1: From Race to Religion and the Challenge of Antisemitism Chapter 2: The Roots of 1940s Anti-Antisemitism Fiction Chapter 3: When Women Made Anti-Antisemitism Fiction Popular Chapter 4: The Limits of Anti-Antisemitism Literature Chapter 5: How Basic Is Basic Judaism? Chapter 6: Philip Bernstein and the 1950s Religious Revival Chapter 7: Life's "Old-Fashioned Jews" Chapter 8: "Why I Choose to Be a Jew" Conclusion: After the Middlebrow Moment
Introduction: Popularizing Judaism Chapter 1: From Race to Religion and the Challenge of Antisemitism Chapter 2: The Roots of 1940s Anti-Antisemitism Fiction Chapter 3: When Women Made Anti-Antisemitism Fiction Popular Chapter 4: The Limits of Anti-Antisemitism Literature Chapter 5: How Basic Is Basic Judaism? Chapter 6: Philip Bernstein and the 1950s Religious Revival Chapter 7: Life's "Old-Fashioned Jews" Chapter 8: "Why I Choose to Be a Jew" Conclusion: After the Middlebrow Moment
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