Key texts in American Jewish culture / edited by Jack Kugelmass.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kugelmass, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews.

United States.

Intellectual life.

United States--Civilization--Jewish influences.

Civilization.

United States--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

vii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Eros and Americanization: David Levinsky and the etiquette of race / Esther Romeyn

Is it good for the Jews? the apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz / Charles Dellheim

Performing Jewish identity in Philip Roth's counterlife film and theater / Emily Miller Budick

The limits of empathy: Hollywood's imagining of Jews ca. 1947 / Donald Weber

The meanings of Marjorie Morningstar / Gordon Hutner

Fiddling with Sholem Aleichem: a history of Fiddler on the Roof / Stephen J. Whitfield

"Yesterday's woman," today's moral guide: Molly Goldberg as Jewish mother / Joyce Antler

First as farce, then as tragedy: the demise of Bridget loves Bernie / Jack Kugelmass

Jewish universalism: some visual texts and subtexts / Ezra Mendelsohn

My own Kaddish: Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 3 / David Schiller

Louis Finkelstein's The Jews: a mid-twentieth-century presentation of Judaism / Harvey E. Goldberg

Embracing world of our fathers: the context of reception / Hasia Diner

Peace of mind (1946): Judaism and the therapeutic polemics of postwar America / Andrew R. Heinze

Kaplan's key: a dynamo "in de middle" of the neighborhood / Andrew Bush and Deborah Dash Moore

Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew: a critique / Edward Shapiro

One nation, with liberty and Haggadahs for all / Joel Gereboff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813532205

0813532213

OCLC:

50334023