Jews at home the domestication of identity / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

Other author Bronner, Simon J.
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; Portland, Or. : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
Descriptionx, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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SeriesJewish cultural studies ; v. 2
Jewish cultural studies ; v. 2. ^A1178678
Contents The dualities of house and home in Jewish culture / Simon J. Bronner -- The domestication of urban Jewish space and the North-West London eruv / Jennifer Cousineau -- Every wise woman shoppeth for her house: the sisterhood gift shop and the American Jewish home in the mid-twentieth century / Joellyn Wallen Zollman -- Reimagining home, rethinking sukkah: rabbinic discourse and its contemporary implications / Marjorie Lehman -- From sacred symbol to key ring: the ḥamsa in Jewish and Israeli societies / Shalom Sabar -- 770 Eastern Parkway: the Rebbe's home as icon / Gabrielle A. Berlinger -- From the nightclub to the living room: gender, ethnicity, and upward mobility in the 1950s party records of three Jewish women comics / Giovanna P. Del Negro -- Samuel Rawet's Wandering Jew: Jewish-Brazilian monologues of home and displacement / Rosana Kohl Bines -- Home in the Pampas: Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish gauchos / Mónica Szurmuk -- Domesticity and the home (page): blogging and the blurring of public and private among Orthodox Jewish women / Andrea Lieber -- Culture mavens: feeling at home in America / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- At home in the world / David Kraemer -- The co-construction of Europe as a Jewish home / Joachim Schlör -- Reflections on 'Culture Mavens' from an Australian Jewish perspective / Suzanne D. Rutland -- There's no place like home: America, Israel, and the (mixed) blessings of assimilation / Michael P. Kramer --The last word: a response / Jenna Weissman Joselit.
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ISBN9781904113461 (pbk.)
ISBN190411346X (pbk.)