How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of
this fascinating study of the interplay between material culture
and Jewish thought. Ken Koltun-Fromm draws from philosophy,
cultural studies, literature, psychology, film, and photography to
portray the vibrancy and richness of Jewish practice in America.
His analyses of Mordecai Kaplan's obsession with journal writing,
Joseph Soloveitchik's urban religion, Abraham Joshua Heschel's
fascination with objects in The Sabbath, and material identity in
the works of Anzia Yezierska, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, and
Philip Roth, as well as Jewish images on the covers of Lilith
magazine and in the Jazz Singer films, offer a groundbreaking
approach to an understanding of modern Jewish thought and its
relation to American culture.
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