Imagining Jewish authenticity : vision and text in American Jewish thought / Ken Koltun-Fromm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koltun-Fromm, Ken, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--United States.

Judaism.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>Exploring how visual media presents claims to Jewish authenticity, Imagining Jewish Authenticity argues that Jews imagine themselves and their place within America by appealing to a graphic sensibility. Ken Koltun-Fromm traces how American Jewish thinkers capture Jewish authenticity, and lingering fears of inauthenticity, in and through visual discourse and opens up the subtle connections between visual expectations, cultural knowledge, racial belonging, embodied identity, and the ways images and texts work together.</P>

Contents:

Introduction: visual authenticity in the American Jewish imaginary

The anxiety of authenticity in image and text

Seeing Israel in Bernard Rosenblatt's social Zionism

Seeing things in Abraham Joshua Heschel's the Sabbath

Seeing food in the Jewish home beautiful and Kosher by design

The language of Jewish bodies in Michael Wyschogrod's the Body of Faith

The language of gendered bodies in Rachel Adler's Engendering Judaism

The language of racial bodies in Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's The Colors of Jews

Conclusion: imagining Jewish authenticity in every generation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015792

0253015790

OCLC:

902846828