Doubting the Devout - The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Nora L. Rubel is assistant professor of religion and classics at the University of Rochester and teaches courses on American Judaism! religion and ethnicity! and religion in relation to American foodways. Klappentext Nora Rubel assesses the choices made by non-haredi Jews when representing the character & characters of ultra-Orthodox Jews. She identifies how the war over gender & family & anxieties over acculturation! Americanization & continuity have been expressed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Family Feud1. Orthodoxy and Nostalgia in the American Jewish Imagination2. Rebbes' Daughters: The New Chosen3. The New Jewish Gothic4. Muggers in Black CoatsConclusion: They Are Us in Other ClothesNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Nora L Rubel, Nora L. Rubel
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2009
• EAN: 9780231141864
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14186-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / Judaism / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Literary studies: general, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities