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Feeling Jewish : (a book for just about anyone) / by Baum, Devorah,author.(CARDINAL)633422;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish--even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on why Jews have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to "negative" feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are. And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized, uprooted, and existentially threatened, she argues that such "Jewish" feelings are becoming increasingly common to us all. Ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Sarah Bernhardt to Woody Allen, Anne Frank to Nathan Englander, Feeling Jewish bridges the usual fault lines between left and right, insider and outsider, Jew and Gentile, and even Semite and anti-Semite, to offer an indispensable guide for our divisive times.
Subjects: Jews; Jews in literature.; Jews in popular culture.;
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Jewcentricity : why the Jews are praised, blamed, and used to explain just about everything / by Garfinkle, Adam M.,1951-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : jewcentricity defined -- Chosen -- On philo-semitism -- Anti-semitism, properly understood -- Jewcentricity globalized -- Jewcentricity central -- The two religions of American Jews -- Adjewlation : Jews in American celebrity culture -- Meet the JACs -- Professional Jews -- Self-hating Jews -- The anti-Israel lobby -- The (non)-centrality of the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Muslim jewcentricity -- Post-Zionism.
Subjects: Jews; Antisemitism.; Jews; Jews in popular culture; Arab-Israeli conflict;
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Deborah and her sisters : how one nineteenth-century melodrama and a host of celebrated actresses put Judaism on the world stage / by Hess, Jonathan M.,1965-2018,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-248) and index.Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America. The German-Jewish elite complained that the playwright, Jewish writer S. H. Mosenthal, had written a drama bearing little authentic Jewish content, while literary critics protested that the play lacked the formal coherence of great tragedy. Yet despite its lackluster critical reception, Deborah became a blockbuster, giving millions of theatergoers the pleasures of sympathizing with an exotic Jewish woman. It spawned adaptations with titles from Leah, the Forsaken to Naomi, the Deserted, burlesques, poems, operas in Italian and Czech, musical selections for voice and piano, a British novel fraudulently marketed in the United States as the original basis for the play, three American silent films, and thousands of souvenir photographs of leading actresses from Adelaide Ristori to Sarah Bernhardt in character as Mosenthal's forsaken Jewess. For a sixty-year period, Deborah and its many offshoots provided audiences with the ultimate feel-good experience of tearful sympathy and liberal universalism. With Deborah and Her Sisters, Jonathan M. Hess offers the first comprehensive history of this transnational phenomenon, focusing on its unique ability to bring Jews and non-Jews together during a period of increasing antisemitism. Paying careful attention to local performances and the dynamics of transnational exchange, Hess asks that we take seriously the feelings this commercially successful drama provoked as it drove its diverse audiences to tears. Following a vast paper trail in theater archives and in the press, Deborah and Her Sisters reconstructs the allure that Jewishness held in nineteenth-century popular culture and explores how the Deborah sensation generated a liberal culture of compassion with Jewish suffering that extended beyond the theater walls.
Subjects: Mosenthal, S. H. (Salomon Hermann), 1821-1877.; Jews in popular culture.; Jewish drama; Jewish women in literature.;
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And you shall know us by the trail of our vinyl : the Jewish history as told by the records we have loved and lost. by Bennett, Roger,1970-(CARDINAL)492199; Kun, Josh.(CARDINAL)545080;
Men's warehouse : the changing sartorial styles of the great cantors -- The Yiddish are coming : how vinyl kept a dying language alive -- Go down Moses : the music of black-Jewish relations -- Who needs a synagogue when you have a record player in your living room? : the Jewish holidays as long playing records -- Me llamo Steinberg -- Laughing at 33 RPM : the vinyl world of comedy -- Oh what a night! : parties, weddings, love, and good old-fashioned happiness -- The sound of suffering : Holocaust, SovietJewry and martyrdom on vinyl -- Haifa on hi-fi : the ever-evolving notion of Israel -- Stop singing our songs : non-Jewish masters of the Jewish melody -- The folk explosion : the last days of Jewish vinyl.An illustrated history of Jewish culture in America as viewed through the music it spawned examines Jews' influence on popular music and American culture in essays on such topics as the psychedelic 1960s in Israel and Jewish fashion.
Subjects: Humor.; Music.; Jews; Jews; Sound recordings;
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Zelda Popkin : the life and times of an American Jewish woman writer / by Popkin, Jeremy D.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)722674;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-249) and index.Introduction: Zelda Popkin: an American Jew, an American woman, an American writer -- An American Jewish childhood -- Zelda Popkin: modern American woman -- Women, murderers, and soldiers: a career in popular culture -- Facing personal loss and Jewish catastrophe -- Zelda Popkin and the women of Israel -- Left behind in the "Golden Age" -- "Yes, there is a second chance"."This book is about Zelda Popkin who lived and wrote through all the great changes of American Jewish women's lives in the 20th century: the reaction against religious tradition, women's emancipation, struggles against antisemitism, the impact of the Holocaust and the creation of Israel, and the upsurge of Jewish identity in the 1960s" --
Subjects: Biographies.; Literary criticism.; Popkin, Zelda, 1898-1983.; Jews; Authors, American; Women authors, American;
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Jews in America : from New Amsterdam to the Yiddish stage / by Corrsin, Stephen D.(CARDINAL)353721; Seigel, Amanda.(CARDINAL)353720; Benson, Kenneth C.(CARDINAL)353719; Sarna, Jonathan D.,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)353718; Marx, Anthony W.,writer of preface.(CARDINAL)353717; New York Public Library.(CARDINAL)139872;
Discovery -- New Christians, conversion and the Inquisition : the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil, Suriname and the Caribbean -- Arriving in New Amsterdam -- and then, New York -- Jewish Indians, Puritans and Quakers, the Christian millennium and the Hope of Israel -- Communities and constitutions in colonial North America -- The long nineteenth century of the Jews in America : The Civil War ; Religious developments ; Community ; Yiddish popular culture: literature, theater and the press.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; New York Public Library; Jews; Jews; Jews; Jews; Jews; Judaism; Jews in public life; Antisemitism;
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Carolina Israelite : how Harry Golden made us care about Jews, the South, and civil rights / by Hartnett, Kimberly Marlowe,author.(CARDINAL)338862;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index.Putting down roots in the goldeneh medina -- Heading South -- A new life and a new cause in Dixie -- Brown, flames, and fame -- Scandal and resurrection -- Ghosts and great men -- Grief, hope, and black power -- The real iron curtain -- Epilogue: Only in America."This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1902-1981), author of the 1958 national best-seller 'Only in America', illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Golden, Harry, 1902-1981.; Jewish journalists; Civil rights workers;
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Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora / by McAlister, Elizabeth A.(CARDINAL)433545;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246), discography (pages 246-248), videography (page 248), and index.Introducing rara -- Work and play, pleasure and performance -- Vulgarity and the politics of the small man -- Mystical work : spirits on parade -- Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti -- Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare -- Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity -- Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture.1430L
Subjects: Songs.; Music.; Rara Festival; Vodou music; Folk music; Folk songs, Creole;
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Harvest of despair : life and death in Ukraine under Nazi rule / by Berkhoff, Karel C.(Karel Cornelis),1965-(CARDINAL)460586;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-443) and index.
Subjects: Germany. Reichskommissariat für die Ukraine.;
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When Scotland was Jewish : DNA evidence, archeology, analysis of migrations, and public and family records show twelfth century Semitic roots / by Hirschman, Elizabeth Caldwell,1949-; Yates, Donald N.(Donald Neal),1950-(CARDINAL)553346;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index.The origins of Scotland -- DNA and population studies : "But why do you think they were Jewish?" -- Genealogies of the first wave of Jewish families, 1100-1350 C.E. -- Genealogies of the second wave of Jewish families, 1350-1700 C.E. -- The early Jews of France, 700-1200 C.E. -- When did Jews arrive in Scotland? -- To Scotland's Stirling, Ayr, and Glasgow -- The Knights Templar, Freemasons and Cabala in Scotland -- The Judaic Colony at Aberdeen -- The religions of Scotland : did Presbyterianism have crypto-Jewish origins? -- Jews in the national consciousness of Scotland : Scott's Ivanhoe."Much traditional history of Scotland rests on fundamental interpretive errors perpetuated to maintain an origin as Celtic, Christian. This equation of Scotland with Celtic culture in popular (and academic) imagination has buried a more accurate understanding of its history. Research includes census records, archaeological artifacts, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, noble genealogies, portraiture, and place names"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Genealogy.; Family histories.; Jews; Jews; Scots; Scots;
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