The future of American Jewish pasts / edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore, and Beth S. Wenger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berman, Lila Corwin, 1976- editor.

Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946- editor.

Wenger, Beth S., 1963- editor.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/d4a09c82-6180-4589-45f3-930b07e45efe

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Historiography.

Jews.

Jews--Study and teaching--United States.

Jews--United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Jews--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews--Study and teaching.

Jews--Social life and customs.

Jews--Social conditions.

Jews--Historiography.

United States.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the study of American Jewish life. Conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic and completed just before the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war, this innovative volume gathers leading scholars of American Jewish experience to ask what the future of the study of the American Jewish past holds. The contributors reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life and delve into underexplored topics to present a vision of a rich future for the field of American Jewish studies. Essays on antisemitism, Zionism, liberalism, immigration, feminism, family histories, and more stake out new sources, methods, and interpretations of histories and historiographies. To understand American Jewish life in its complexity and richness, these essays engage multiple disciplines, including history, ethnography, and literary studies. Many showcase comparative or theoretical approaches that illuminate new dimensions of American Jewish studies, and others offer personal reflections to reveal how scholars' own life stories intersect with the questions that animate their scholarship. For students, scholars, and the general public, this interdisciplinary volume provides a tantalizing selection of the freshest approaches to understanding American Jewish life"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction. On contexts and questions / Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore, and Beth S. Wenger

Prologue. Re-narrations of American Jewish life / Riv-Ellen Prell

Americanization politics and the Yiddish press / Ayelet Brinn

American Zionism and racial justice : New perspectives from the past / Noam Pianko

Rethinking American Jewish liberation : Jewish communists and Jewish Life, 1946-56 / Kate Rosenblatt

American Jewish history as told by the Irish, 1870-1930 / Hasia R. Diner

Protestant theology and the goals of Jewish-Christian relations / Jessica Cooperman and Amy Weiss

On the importance of coalitional feminism to American Jewish history / Lana Dee Povitz

Catching the Hewbrew accent : performing race in American Jewish culture / Heather S. Nathans

Schoken books : the story of a Jewish publisher and American race consciousness / Markus Krah

Retelling Jewish American literature through women writers / Kathryn Hellerstein

Jewish lightning : the enduring figure of the Jewish arsonist / Britt Tevis

Hooked to a family story : mundane objects and Holocaust representation / Tobias Brinkmann

Taking leave while holding fast : Jewish congregations and their buildings in twenty-first century America / Alanna E. Cooper

"Can I ask you a question?" / story by Laurence Roth, art by JT Waldman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Future of American Jewish pasts.

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781512828245

1512828246

OCLC:

1499565690

Publisher Number:

CIPO000289406