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Books on: jewish identity

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New Jewish Identities: Contemporary Europe and Beyond

Book by Zvi Gitelman, Barry Kosmin, András Kovács; Central European University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Jewish Diaspora, Jews--Identity, Judaism--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

of this relieves us of asking how Jewish identity expresses itself at lower levels of Jewish commitment, where associations between ethnicity...observance but an absence of commit- ment to Jewish peoplehood or a moderate level of ethnic...
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Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity

Book by Howard Wettstein; University of California Press, 2002

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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...remake a contemporary Jewish identity in the diaspora...multiplicity of contemporary Jewish identities in France. If there...to construct such identities. But Walls question...secular Jews for whom Jewish identity is problematic...
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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

...explicitly Jewish in the four years I was there. But, however alienated I felt from Jewish practice, I never felt estranged from my Jewish identity. Doing anything Jewish seemed archaic, provincial, and unreasonable. But my identity as a Jew, although...
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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

...the Making of German-Jewish Identity studies the ways in which...unprecedented role in shaping Jewish identity during this...the Making of Jewish Identity What sort of story about...of popularly oriented Jewish literature? In German...
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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

...they continue to define their identity in terms of the tradition and...of the covenant law in the Jewish tradition, not all strands...significant for establishing Jewish identity. Rather, a number...we must beware of defining Jewish identity too narrowly in theological...

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Journal Articles on: jewish identity

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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

...Kallen: Pluralism and American Jewish Identity. by William Toll In 1915...Valley to encourage isolated Jewish academics to overcome their...consciousness and to assert their ethnic identity by placing Jewish historical and cultural topics...
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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...kashruth leave no doubt about the Jewish identity of the characters and also...American cultural and racial identity. While the Jewish characters, like the Indians...
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Memory as Identity: The Invention of the Lower East Side

Journal article by Beth S. Wenger; American Jewish History, Vol. 85, 1997

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American Jews, Group identity--Analysis, Jewish identity, Jews, American--Identity, Jews--Social aspects, Social identity--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...fink with the past, fostered Jewish identity, and measured the accomplishments...forward in constructing a new Jewish community and identity. Through their relationship...the evolution of American Jewish identity in the twentieth century...
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You Should See Yurself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture

Journal article by Susan A. Glenn; American Jewish History, Vol. 94, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, You Should See Yurself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture (Essay collection)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

You Should See Yurself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture...postmodernism offers for challenging Jewish "master narratives." For example, in her essay "Troubling Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Theater...
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German-Jewish Identities in America

Journal article by Benjamin Maria Baader; American Jewish History, Vol. 92, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, German-Jewish Identities in America (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...he has negotiated the German, Jewish, and American dimensions of his identity concludes the volume. German-Jewish Identities in America is a valuable contribution...understanding of the life worlds of Jewish immigrants from Western and Central...

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Magazine Articles on: jewish identity

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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 On its face...extreme response was a flight from Jewish identity through outmarriage, conversion...entirely new constructions of Jewish identity: in the West, Reform and Conservative...
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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

...Holocaust, when, as a Jewish teenager, I was confronted...high school by another Jewish student--Sam, who...into a new historical identity. These identities are necessarily related...political-cultural identity, and all political...personal survival. Jewish tradition teaches the...
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Turning the Page on Mexican Women: Born to a Jewish Immigrant Family, Rosa Nissan Transcended Cultural and Personal Obstacles to Question the Traditional Role of Females in Works Celebrating Their Identity

Magazine article by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, November 2005

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Authors, Mexican--Services, Authors, Mexican--Works, Female identity--Prognosis, Jewish women--Portrayals, Mexican writers--Services, Mexican writers--Works, Nissan, Rosa--Services, Nissan, Rosa--Works, Women, Jewish--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...on Mexican Women: Born to a Jewish Immigrant Family, Rosa Nissan...in Works Celebrating Their Identity. by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez...many Mexicans knew they were Jewish, but that their ethnic background...Guita Schyfter was looking for Jewish personal accounts to help create...
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Fugitive Pieces: Have We Sleepwalked into Segregation? the Poet Michael Rosen Visits the Reopened Jewish Museum in London and Finds a Complex Story of British Identity

Magazine article by Michael Rosen; New Statesman, Vol. 139, April 5, 2010

Subjects:

British national characteristics--Appreciation, Jewish museums--Demographic aspects, Multiculturalism--Appreciation, National characteristics, British--Appreciation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Rosen Visits the Reopened Jewish Museum in London and...Complex Story of British Identity. by Michael Rosen The new Jewish Museum is now open...Complicated, this identity stuff. And so it should be. The Jewish Museum is at 129-131...
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"Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities": Jewish Museum

Magazine article by Carol Ockman; Artforum International, Vol. 35, September 1996

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Art--Exhibitions, Jews--Social aspects, Popular culture--Exhibitions, Ritual--Exhibitions, Stereotype (Psychology)--Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...Jewish? Challenging traditional identities": Jewish museum. by Carol Ockman The...seamless assimilation while linking Jewish identity to a larger, secular realm...makes it especially clear that Jewish identity is in no way monolithic. In...

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Newspaper Articles on: jewish identity

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Jewish Group Pushes Awareness of Heritage: Conference Studies Identity, Survival

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, September 3, 1996

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

Jewish group pushes awareness of heritage: Conference studies identity, survival by Larry Witham When Jewish students at the nations colleges...important frontier" in trying to keep Jewish identity. Half of all American Jews today...
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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 flaunt...Brando created a firestorm by accusing Jewish entertainment bosses of exploiting all...friction can erupt into riot. "Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Stereotypes...
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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 1939 Atlanta: Ballyhoo...coaster life by Lisa Rauschart Being Jewish and Southern in the late 1930s posed something...followers of Mr. Uhry, whose trilogy of Jewish Atlanta begins with "Driving Miss Daisy...
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Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 20, 2009

Subjects:

Identity theft, Public libraries

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

Protect Yourself from Identity Theft. Events related to books...two weeks before event date. Identity Theft: 10 a.m. Tuesday...answers to questions about identity theft from Eric Salcedo, community...Polin will present "Great Jewish Women who shaped our Nation...
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'Unkempt State' of the Rabbi in Bangor Surfaces in Research into Welsh Jewry; University Lecturer to Launch Study into the Jewish Diaspora in Wales

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 3, 2010

Subjects:

Universities and colleges--United Kingdom

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

...project, entitled The Jewish Diaspora in Wales, in...contributed to the Welsh identity since 1945. "Its fleshing...out asking what was the Jewish community like, and...Think of the Welsh identity and how its affected...chairman of South Wales Jewish Representative Committee...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jewish identity

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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

...1921 23), written in Russian-Jewish dialect, and Red Cavalry (1926...the army (he had concealed his Jewish identity) and employing the racy slang of...forceful prose, combining astringent Jewish irony with Russian caricature...
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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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Anti-Semitism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...religious barriers that isolated the Jewish minorities from other citizens...sometimes subscribed to the idea of Jewish racial identity and sometimes denied it, not...but actually contributed to it. Jewish reaction to the phenomenon of...
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Roth, Philip

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...noted for their irony and themes of identity, rebellion, and sexuality, deal largely with middle-class Jewish-American life. Roth gained his initial...insecure, and hilariously articulate Jewish man who describes his life, notably...
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Holocaust

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...still speak in traditional Jewish terms of a God, active in...unique relationship with the Jewish people. Museums and memorials...Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933 1945 (1992...War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (2000); R. Rhodes, Masters...

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