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Title: JEWISH IN AMERICA
By: Sara B. Blair (Editor), Jonathan Freedman (Editor)
Format: Hardback

List price: £80.00


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ISBN 10: 0472098802
ISBN 13: 9780472098804
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Pub. date: 11 October, 2004
Pages: 288
Description: A searching collection of perspectives on what it means to be Jewish in America
Synopsis: "Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on which our writers and critics offer creative commentary and to which they make compelling response. Shaped in the American crucible of race and ethnicity, pushed and pulled by the American traditions of ahistorical and individualist thinking, empowered by a powerful sacramental and hermeneutic tradition yet challenged by that tradition's stunning variety of inflections, impelled to furious response by world crisis, these writers testify not only to the anguishing and joyous complexity of being Jewish in America, but the creative energies such multiplicity generates."-From the Introduction This rare and original work of cultural studies offers uncommon and engaging perspectives-as well as provocative and humorous insights-on what it means to be Jewish in America. "Jewish in America" features poetry, art, essays, and stories from an impressive and respected list of contributors, including among others Stephen Greenblatt, Richard Kostelanetz, Jacqueline Osherow, Robert Pinsky, Sharon Pomerantz, Nancy Reisman, Grace Schulman, Louis Simpson, Alisa Solomon, and Stephen J. Whitfield. In addition to pieces by some of the country's leading writers, the book features a stunning gallery of original photographs that transport the viewer from the crowded Coney Island beaches of the 1940s to the landscapes of Oaxaca, Mexico in the 1990s.
Illustrations: 14 photographs
Publication: US
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Returns: Returnable
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