Coming out Jewish : constructing ambivalent identities / Jon Stratton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stratton, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Jews--Social conditions--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Like many Jews of our generation, Jon Stratton grew up in a family more concerned about assimilation than about preserving Jewish tradition. While he could easily 'pass' among non-Jews, he found himself increasingly torn between his fear of not belonging and a deeply-felt commitment to his family's past.Coming Out Jewish examines the unique challenge of constructing an identity amid the clash between ethnicity and conformity. For many Jews, the idea of full assimilation ended with the Holocaust. But the pressure to adapt to the mainstream, Stratton eloquently argues, remains powe

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How not to assimilate; Speaking as a Jew in British cultural studies; European Jews, assimilation and the uncanny; Ghetto thinking and everyday life; (Dis)placement in the state; Jews, representation and the modern state; Historicising the idea of diaspora; Migrating to utopia; Not quite white; Jews, race and the White Australia policy; Jews and multiculturalism in Australia; Making social space for Jews in America; Seinfeldis a Jewish sitcom, isn't it?; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-59706-1

0-203-36114-8

1-280-06258-4

1-134-59707-X

0-203-37790-7

9786610062584

9780203361146

OCLC:

224745225