Too Jewish? : challenging traditional identities edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleeblatt, Norman L.

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jewish artists--United States--Exhibitions.

Jewish artists.

Physical Description:

xx, 187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Jewish Museum ; New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Contents:

Foreword : the couturier and the Hasid / Linda Nochlin

"Passing" into multiculturalism / Norman L. Kleeblatt

C[lement] Hardesh [Greenberg] and company : formal criticism and Jewish identity / Margaret Olin

The Jew's body : thoughts on Jewish physical difference / Sander L. Gilman

Why Jewish princesses don't sweat : desire and consumption in postwar American Jewish culture / Riv-Ellen Prell

The mouse that never roars : Jewish masculinity on American television / Maurice Berger

Jewish Barbie / Rhonda Lieberman

Notes on Akiba / Tony Kushner.

Notes:

Issued in association with a traveling exhibition opening at the Jewish Museum of New York in March, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184).

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0813523265 (alk. paper)

9780813523262 (alk. paper)

0813523273 (pbk : alk. paper)

9780813523279 (pbk : alk. paper)

OCLC:

33971798