Forging Modern Jewish Identities: Public Faces and Private Struggles

Berkowitz, Michael (Editor)/ Tananbaum, Susan L. (Editor)/ Bloom, Sam W. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0853034540 / ISBN 13: 9780853034544

Published by Vallentine Mitchell, 2003

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293 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forging Modern Jewish Identities: Public Faces and Private Struggles
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853034540
• ISBN 13: 9780853034544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.61 kilograms

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Synopsis

Forging Modern Jewish Identities illuminates facets of modern Jewish identity through engagement with diverse historical moments, political and social currents and literature as an aspect of popular culture. This volume is distinctive, and it can be enjoyed by the general reader as well as having potential as a teaching tool, as the experience of Jewry in the United States, Britain, Central and Western Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union is addressed by experts in each of these fields. Its introduction places the volume within the burgeoning genre of anthologies that constitutes a significant - but little noticed - development in Jewish and ethnic-national historiography. Cutting across disciplinary and national boundaries, the articles highlight Jewry's encounter with modernity from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. While acknowledging the power of acculturation, each of the contributions details how Jews transformed themselves, individually and communally, while reshaping notions of Jewish community and what it means to be a Jew in the modern world.