Language:
English
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Religions
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,12 (2018) pp 8
Keywords:
Jews Identity
;
Jews Dwellings
;
Jews Social conditions 21st century
Abstract:
This article considers the existence of an exilic imperative in the historical and identity hermeneutics of American Jewry. Author considers cases of (1) American Jewish identification with racial outsiders, including the appropriation of historical, cultural, and religious forms; (2) the persistent creation of American Jewish ethnoburbs, unlike other white ethnic groups; and (3) the creation of exilic fantasy literature by American Jewish novelists. The author suggests that although American conditions do not justify interpretations of Jewish social alienation, American Jews have nevertheless applied traditional Jewish exilic hermeneutics to those American conditions.
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