Miriam Shoshana Sobre

Jewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication

Never Forget, Tikkun Olam, and Kindness to Strangers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book explores Jewish US American identity beyond the white and educated "model minority" stereotype. Jewish life and Judaism are explored across personal, socio-cultural, and political-global implications, arguing for more inclusive approaches to relationships among race, ethnicity, culture, and religion in theory, teaching, and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605184
• ISBN-10: 1793605181
• Artikelnr.: 65697919

Autorenporträt

Miriam Shoshana Sobré is assistant professor of instruction at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Inhaltsangabe

Table Of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Point of the Exercise
Section I: Jews and Jewish Life in US America
Chapter 1: Definitions, History and Demographics of Jewish Americans
Chapter 2: Rootless Cosmopolitans Find Roots: Socioeconomics, Education and
Social Justice of Jewish Life in US America
Chapter 3: Antisemitism, Zionism, Israel, and Acceptance: Jews in the US
American 20th Century Through Today
Section II: Theoretical Framework for the Study
Chapter 4: Critical Intercultural Communication and Jewish American Life -
A Framework for Analysis and Critique
Chapter 5: Never Forget, Scattered People and Israel: Jews within a
Postcolonial Context
Section III: US American Jewish Voices and the Stories of Jewish American
Identity
Chapter 6: Laying the Groundwork for the Study
Chapter 7: A Mosaic of Jewish Identity
Chapter 8: Ashkenormativity and Critical Intercultural Communication
Chapter 9: Strange Bedfellows: US American Jews and Israel
Chapter 10: Never Forget and Never Again
Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish Terms
Appendices
References
About the Author