The Jewish Cultural Studies series offers a contemporary view of
Jewish culture around the globe. Multidisciplinary, multi-focused,
and eclectic, it covers the cultural practices of secular Jews as
well as of religious Jews of all persuasions, and from historical
as well as contemporary perspectives. It also considers the range
of institutions that represent and respond to Jewishness, including
museums, the media, synagogues, and schools. More than a series on
Jewish ideas, it uncovers ideas of being Jewish. This volume
proposes that the idea of 'Jewish', or what people think of as
'Jewishness', is revealed in expressions of culture and applied in
constructions of identity and representation. In Part I,
'Expression', Elly Teman considers how the kabbalistic red string
found at sites throughout Israel conveys a political and
psychological response to terrorism. Sergey Kravtsov examines
Jewish and non-Jewish narratives concerning a synagogue in eastern
Europe. Miriam Isaacs looks at expressions of cultural continuity
in DP camps in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and Jascha Nemtsov
discusses how Jewish folk music was presented as high art in early
twentieth-century Germany. In Part II, 'Identity', Joachim Schlor
enquires how the objects taken by emigrants leaving Germany for
Palestine after Hitler's rise to power represented their
identities. Hanna Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie Passow
examine how survivors' narratives become integrated into family
identities. Olga Gershenson offers close readings of how the
identities of Jews as enacted in post-perestroika films highlight
conflicting Russian attitudes towards Jews. Ted Merwin considers
commercial establishments as 'sacred spaces' for Jewish secular
identities. Part III, 'Representation', opens with stories
collected in Israel by Ilana Rosen from Jews who lived in
Carpatho-Russia, while Judith Lewin considers the characterization
of the Jewish woman in French literature. Holly Pearse and Mikel
Koven, respectively, decode the Jewishness of modern radio comedy
and Hollywood film. The idea of Jewishness is applied in the volume
with provocative interpretations of Jewish experience, and fresh
approaches to the understanding of Jewish cultural expressions.
CONTRIBUTORS Simon J. Bronner, Olga Gershenson, Bea
Hollander-Goldfein, Miriam Isaacs, Hannah Kliger, Mikel J. Koven,
Sergey R. Kravtsov, Judith Lewin, Ted Merwin, Jascha Nemtsov,
Emilie S. Passow, Holly A. Pearse, Ilana Rosen, Joachim Schlor,
Elly Teman
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