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Books on: "Jewish Identity" OR ((Jews OR Jewish) AND identity)

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Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity

Book by Jonathan M. Hess; Stanford University Press, 2010

Subjects:

German Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Group Identity In Literature, Jewish Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Jews In Literature, Jews--Germany--Intellectual Life--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sought to do for their readers. German-Jewish romance fiction imagined a world where Jews typically found self-fulfillment through...along these lines was key to the way Jews were so often represented and Jewish continuity undermined in fiction by non-Jews. Jewish writers responded to this literature...
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Respecting the Wicked Child: A Philosophy of Secular Jewish Identity and Education

Book by Mitchell Silver; University of Massachusetts Press, 1998

Subjects:

Humanistic Judaism, Jews--Identity, Judaism--20th Century, Philosophy, Jewish, Secularism

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...doctrine of "hereness," of building a Jewish life in a socialist Europe, set it against...In America The massive emigration of Jews from Eastern Europe to America, which...so difficult to overcome in Europe. Jews like Meyer London and Morris Hillquit...scope to the cultural initiatives of Jews. Jewish life in New York, the center of the...
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Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity

Book by Howard Wettstein; University of California Press, 2002

Subjects:

Jewish Diaspora--History, Jews--Civilization, Jews--Identity

Collections: History, Entire Library

IDENTITY Selves do not...them, creating identities. Thus, creating...experience. JEWISH IDENTITY Recently there...volumes analyzing Jewish identity. 6 A major thread...emancipation of the Jews, secular Jewish identity became a possibility...
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora

Book by John J. Collins; William B. Eerdmans, 2000

Subjects:

Apocryphal Books (Old Testament)--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Greek Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Jews--Identity, Judaism And Literature--Greece, Judaism--History--Post-Exilic Period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...here a prime example of cultural antagonism, dominated by scorn of non-Jews and Jewish national aspirations. 97 But if the Jewish writers felt only scorn for non-Jews and their culture, why would they write in epic hexameters, in the name...
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

Book by Cynthia Scheinberg; Cambridge University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Aguilar, Grace--1816-1847--Religion, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--1806-1861--Religion, Christian Poetry, English--19th Century--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--19th Century, English Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Jewish Poetry--History And Criticism, Jewish Women--Great Britain--Intellectual Life, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--England, Levy, Amy--1861-1889--Religion, Religious Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Rossetti, Christina Georgina--1830-1894--Religion, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...would allow her to communicate with real Jews ; the Jewish grandson, cast as a true possessor...Barrett Browning touched revered by Jews. Culminating this strange set of images...write in Hebrew, Barrett Brownings own identity/name becomes dangerously close to that of a dark Jew herself. Ultimately, Horne discredits...fantasized evidence of Barrett Brownings Jewish correspondence; the evidence provided...

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Journal Articles on: "Jewish Identity" OR ((Jews OR Jewish) AND identity)

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The Eucalyptus Tree and the Talmud: The Return to a Jewish Literary Heritage as a Post-Zionist Jewish Identity

Journal article by Moshe Lavee; European Judaism, Vol. 39, 2006

Subjects:

Israel--Religious aspects, Israel--Social aspects, Jewish identity--Social aspects, Jewish studies--Criticism and interpretation, Jews--Identity, Jews--Social aspects, Religious works--Criticism and interpretation, Talmud (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...The Return to a Jewish Literary Heritage...Post-Zionist Jewish Identity. by Moshe Lavee...probably a Jew from an Arab...a question of identity, of the ability...Israeli culture and Jewish culture are merging...the moment that Jews insist that involvement...partial ... If Jewish identity can feed itself...of progressive Jewish movements in...many secular Jews from any knowledge...society and Jewish identity today, one has...developing a Jewish identity model which is...
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"Big Chief Izzy Horowitz": Theatricality and Jewish Identity in the Wild West

Journal article by Andrea Most; American Jewish History, Vol. 87, 1999

Subjects:

American Jews, Girl Crazy (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish identity, Jews, American--Identity, Musical theater--Social aspects, Western States--Portrayals, Whoopee (Play)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Horowitz": Theatricality and Jewish Identity in the Wild West. by ANDREA...confused. To American Jews of the 1920s and 1930s...The definition of the Jew was of particular concern...associated with performing identity on the musical stage throughout...countering this prejudice, Jews strove to associate themselves...that America was already Jewish.(47) They supported...argued that Columbus was a Jew, that the Puritans were...and Indians become Jews) Jews could claim to be original...of the privileges that identity receives. In adopting...on the musical stage the Jewish comic not only takes on...system, indeed to make the Jew the keeper and protector...
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Horace M. Kallen: Pluralism and American Jewish Identity

Journal article by William Toll; American Jewish History, Vol. 85, 1997

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Group identity--Analysis, Jewish identity, Jews--Identity, Kallen, Horace M.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social identity--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Pluralism and American Jewish Identity. by William Toll In...or the dilemmas of Jewish identity with which he was struggling...defended the status of Jews, giving them parity...discuss a spectrum of Jewish educational and defense...appreciate how Kallen set Jewish identity into the American context...did Kallen identify a Jew within the long stream...
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The Holocaust and Postwar Jewish Identity in Daniel Stern's Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die

Journal article by Philippe Codde; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 33, 2005

Subjects:

Holocaust literature--Analysis, Jewish identity--Portrayals, Jews--Identity, Jews--Portrayals, Stern, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation, Stern, Daniel--Works, Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Holocaust and Postwar Jewish Identity in Daniel Sterns Who...issue of authentic Jewish identity in a fully commercialized...recent fate of the Jews of Europe. Raul Hilberg...novel, a successful Jewish protagonist, Jud Kramer...the fully assimilated Jew. Though he is endowed...both his past and his Jewish identity, he is accused in...
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"Jerusalem: Capital of the Jews":1 the Jewish Identity of Jerusalem in Greek and Roman Sources*

Journal article by Rivkah Fishman-Duker; Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 20, 2008

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Cities, Greek civilization, History, Jerusalem Israel, Jews, Roman civilization, Social identity

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Jerusalem: Capital of the Jews":1 the Jewish Identity of Jerusalem in Greek and...Rivkah Fishman-Duker The Jewish identity of Jerusalem as recorded in...all in agreement about the Jewish identity of the city. These texts...

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Magazine Articles on: "Jewish Identity" OR ((Jews OR Jewish) AND identity)

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Why Are the Jews Chosen? Rabbi David Novak Makes a Powerful Case for Jewish Identity

Magazine article by David Novak; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April 2010

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Covenant theology--Management, Covenants (Theology)--Management, Jewish identity--Religious aspects, Jewish renewal--Management, Jews--Identity, Jews--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Why Are the Jews Chosen? Rabbi David Novak Makes a Powerful Case for Jewish Identity. by David Novak...obvious point that biological identity is natural while national identity is constructed. Even when...them into a new historical identity. These identities are necessarily related...and rear them with a Jewish identity, even if this means that...
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Love, Hate, and Jewish Identity

Magazine article by Jonathan Sacks; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 1997

Subjects:

Israel--Relations with the Diaspora, Jewish nationalism--Social aspects, Jews--Identity, Judaism--Customs and practices

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Love, hate, and Jewish identity. by Jonathan Sacks...subject of Judaism and Jewish identity should not count...surrounded by large non-Jewish cultures. In the...dare to say that Jews and Judaism are of...who said: "Each Jew knows how thoroughly...The "emancipated Jew in Western Europe...his specifically Jewish character, yet the...presented European Jews with a messianic...was a flight from Jewish identity through outmarriage...
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Israel, the U.s. and Jewish Identity: Yael Dayan in Florida

Magazine article by Melva Underbakke; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 30, March 2011

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Jews, United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Israel, the U.s. and Jewish Identity: Yael Dayan in Florida by Melva Underbakke...the American community express their Jewish identity by supporting Israel wholeheartedly...background, Dayan noted that, in the past, Jews were made to feel a common denominator...changed in 1948, she said, and now Jews create communities that are not the...problems. Thus, from Day 1 Israel was a Jewish democracy, Dayan said, but as time...criticize Israel the reaction is: How can a Jew talk like this? But, she argued...
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Jose Gurvich: Filling Every Space: Through Constant Experimentation and a Reawakened Jewish Identity, This Uruguayan Artist Created a Distinctive Visual Language with Universal Impact

Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, July 2002

Subjects:

Artists--Biography, Gurvich, Martin--Biography, Jews--Art, Uruguay--Art

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...experimentation and a reawakened Jewish identity, this Uruguayan artist...rediscovering his own Jewish identity, he developed a distinctive...reawakened awareness of his Jewish identity, was among the earliest...as another displaced Jew, used images of floating...
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Defining Jewish Identity

Magazine article by Layla Dawson; The Architectural Review, Vol. 217, June 2005

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Architects--Works, Architecture--Exhibitions, Sachs, Angeli--Collections and collecting, Sachs, Angeli--Exhibitions, Sachs, Angeli--Works, Voolen, Edward van--Collections and collecting, Voolen, Edward van--Exhibitions, Voolen, Edward van--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Defining Jewish Identity. by Layla Dawson Is there a definable Jewish identity in contemporary architecture...architects in their exhibition Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture...today or the biblical Jews fleeing Egypt. The besieged...

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Newspaper Articles on: "Jewish Identity" OR ((Jews OR Jewish) AND identity)

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Art Explores Jewish Identity in Hollywood: Few Entertainers Flaunt Background

Newspaper article by K.L. Billingsley; The Washington Times, February 4, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Art explores Jewish identity in Hollywood: Few entertainers...a firestorm by accusing Jewish entertainment bosses of...erupt into riot. "Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional...or defines them? How are Jews represented in media, popular...
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Jewish Identity Politics, Circa 1939 Atlanta: 'Ballyhoo' Explores Southern Family's Roller-Coaster Life

Newspaper article by Lisa Rauschart; The Washington Times, January 24, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Jewish identity politics, circa...Rauschart Being Jewish and Southern in...realignment. For many Jews in the South on...the right kind of Jew. For the Freitags...group of German Jews who settled in the...which excludes other Jews, specifically the...of himself as a Jew first and foremost...whose trilogy of Jewish Atlanta begins with...
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The Jewish Experience in Elgin New Museum Exhibit Details Lives of Jews Who Became Early Settlers

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 3, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Jewish Experience in Elgin New Museum Exhibit Details Lives of Jews Who Became Early Settlers. Byline...almost the beginning of Elgin, the Jewish population here has been a thriving...Titled "Stories of Immigration, Identity, Assimilation - the Jewish Experience in Elgin," and sponsored...
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No, Muslims Are Not the 'New Jews'; Jews in Britain Saw Themselves as Part of the Nation, Not a Nation Apart. Muslims Today Could Learn from That, Says One Jewish Writer

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 6, 2007

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Muslims, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Soldiers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...British state and its citizens. The Jews aspired to integrate within British society...a decree which has not prevented many Jews (and not a few Muslims) from taking...in appreciable numbers, Christian and Jewish groups have tried and failed to engage...Britain. If the Muslims are to be the new Jews - secure in their identity but living at peace with society around...
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U.S. Jews See Anti-Semitism as Biggest Threat, Study Finds: Few Call Religious Observance Important to Their Identity

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, June 2, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

U.S. Jews see anti-Semitism...important to their identity by Larry Witham American Jews give a low priority...is more a threat to Jewish identity in America than intermarriage...Holocaust is key to being a Jew, according to the...anti-Semitism for Jewish identity. "I wouldnt view...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Jewish Identity" OR ((Jews OR Jewish) AND identity)

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Holocaust

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...L. Davidowisz, The War against the Jews (1975); D. S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust (1984...Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933 1945 (1992) and The Destruction of European Jews (3 vol., 3d ed. 2003); D. J...Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (2000); R. Rhodes, Masters of Death...
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Anti-Semitism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...subscribed to the idea of Jewish racial identity and sometimes denied it, not only failed...Hitler. Hitlers persecution of the Jews during World War II was unparalleled...that between 5 and 6 million European Jews were exterminated between 1939 and 1945...jailings, and the suppression of Jewish publications and cultural institutions...Union, however, increasing numbers of Jews have emigrated. International anti...J.-P. Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (tr. 1948, repr. 1960); J. Katz...
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Babel, Isaac Emmanuelovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...23), written in Russian-Jewish dialect, and Red Cavalry...army (he had concealed his Jewish identity) and employing the racy slang...prose, combining astringent Jewish irony with Russian caricature...Krik (1927) about an Odessan Jewish gangster, and turned to drama...
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Kitaj, R. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...objects. His strong intellectual interests, including surrealism , art and political history, literature, Jewish history, and Jewish identity, are themes that run through his work. His paintings of the late 1980s and 1990s (e.g., The Wedding...
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Roth, Philip

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1955). His writings, noted for their irony and themes of identity, rebellion, and sexuality, deal largely with middle-class Jewish-American life. Roth gained his initial literary reputation...monologue by a young, insecure, and hilariously articulate Jewish man who describes his life, notably his possessive mother...

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