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Thinking Jewish Culture in America (Hardcover, New)
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Thinking Jewish Culture in America (Hardcover, New)
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Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought
extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish
culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of
Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas
of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural
studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures,
together with Chancellor Arnold Eisen s postscript, position Jewish
thought within the dynamics and possibilities of contemporary
Jewish culture. These diverse essays in Jewish thought re-imagine
cultural space as a public and sometimes contested performance of
Jewish identity, and they each seek to re-enliven that space with
reflective accounts of cultural meaning. How do Jews imagine
themselves as embodied actors in America? Do cultural obligations
limit or expand notions of the self? How should we imagine Jewish
thought as a cultural performance? What notions of peoplehood might
sustain a vibrant Jewish collectivity in a globalized economy? How
do programs in Jewish studies work within the academy? These and
other questions engage both Jewish thought and culture, opening
space for theoretical works to broaden the range of cultural
studies, and to deepen our understanding of Jewish cultural
dynamics. Thinking Jewish Culture is a work about Jewish cultural
identity reflected through literature, visual arts, philosophy, and
theology. But it is more than a mere reflection of cultural
patterns and choices: the argument pursued throughout Thinking
Jewish Culture is that reflective sources help produce the very
cultural meanings and performances they purport to analyze.
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