ISBN:
0813532213
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 308 Seiten
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
2003
Keywords:
Kulturwissenschaften
;
USA
Abstract:
This volume provides an analysis of specific texts in art, music, television, literature, homily, liturgy and history that have influenced American Jewish culture. Works discussed include Philip Roth's novel "Counterlife", the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and Irving Howe's "World of Our Fathers". Which texts are so pivotal that they provide keys to understanding American Jewish culture? he contributors to this volume come from a variety of disciplines, including American studies, anthropology, comparative literature, history, music, religious studies and women's studies. Each writer provides an analysis of a specific text in art, music, television, literature, homily, liturgy and history. Some of the works discussed, such as Philip Roth's novel "Counterlife", the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and Irving Howe's "World of Our Fathers", are already widely acknowledged components of the American Jewish studies canon. Others - such as "Bridget Loves Bernie", infamous for the hostile reception it received among American Jews - may be considered "key texts" because of the controversy they provoked. Others still, such as Joshua Liebman's "Piece of Mind" and the radio and TV sitcom "The Goldbergs", demonstrate the extent to which American Jewish culture and mainstream American culture intermingle and borrow from each other. This work expands the frame of reference used by students of culture and history both by widening the "canon" of Jewish texts and by providing a way to extrapolate new meanings from well-known sources.
Abstract:
Keys and Canons / Jack Kugelmass Eros and Americanization: David Levinsky and the Etiquette of Race / Esther RomeynThe Meanings of Marjorie Morningstar / Gordon Hunter Is It Good for the Jews? The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz / Charles Dellheim Performing Jewish Identity in Philip Roth's Counterlife / Emiliy Miller Budick The Limits of Empathy: Hollywood's Imaging ofJews circa 1947 / DONALD WEBER Fiddling with Sholem Aleichem: A History ofFiddler on the Roof / STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD "Yesterday's Woman," Today's Moral Guide:Molly Goldberg as Jewish Mother / JOYCE ANTLER First as Farce, Then as Tragedy: The Unlamented : Demise of Bridget Loves Bernie / JACK KUGELMASS Jewish Universalism: Some Visual Texts and Subtexts / EZRA MENDELSOHN "My Own Kaddish": Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 / DAVID SCHILLER Louis Finkelstein's The Jews: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Presentation of Judaism / HARVEY E. GOLDBERG Embracing World of Our Fathers: The Context of Reception / HASIA DINER Peace of Mind (1946): Judaism and the Therapeutic Polemics of Postwar America / ANDREW R. HEINZE Kaplan's Key: A Dynamo "in de middle" of the Neighborhood / ANDREW BUSH AND DEBORAH DASH MOORE Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew: A Critique / EDWARD SHAPIRO One Nation, with Liberty and Haggadahs for All / JOEL GEREBOFF
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