Re-envisioning Jewish identities : reflections on contemporary culture in Israel and the diaspora / by Efraim Sicher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sicher, Efraim, author.

Series:

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; 0926-2261 Volume 70.

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; Volume 70, 0926-2261

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity--History--21st century.

Jews.

Jews--Identity.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

VI, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Book edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021.

Summary:

"This innovative study shows how the imaginary constructions of self and Other are shaping identification with Jewishness in the twenty-first century. The texts and art works discussed in this book test a diverse range of ways of identifying as Jews and with the Jewish people, while engaging with postmodern and postcolonial discourses of hybridity and multiculturalism. This book selects six key areas in which the boundaries of Jewish identities have been interrogated and renegotiated: nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and the Holocaust. In each of these areas. Sicher explores how major and emerging contemporary writers and artists re-envision the meaning of their identities. Such re-envisioning may be literally visual or metaphorical in the search for expression of artistic self between the conventional paradigms of the past and new ways of thinking"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sicher, Efraim. Re-envisioning jewish identities

ISBN:

9789004462243

9004462244

OCLC:

1257314037