Strictly Kosher Reading - Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy (Paperback, New)

For centuries, fervently observant Jewish communities have produced thousands of works of Jewish law, thought, and spirituality. But in recent decades, the literature of America's Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community has taken on brand-new forms: self-help books, cookbooks, monthly magazines, parenting guides, biographies, picture books, even adventure stories and spy novels - all produced by Haredi men and women, for the Haredi reader. What's changed? Why did these works appear, and what do they mean to the community that produces and consumes them? How has the Haredi world, as it seeks fidelity to unchanging tradition, so radically changed what it writes and what it reads? In answering these questions, 'Strictly Kosher Reading' points to a central paradox in contemporary Haredi life. Haredi Jewry sets itself apart, claiming to reject modern secular culture as dangerous and as threatening to everything Torah stands for. But in practice, Haredi popular literature reveals a community thoroughly embedded in contemporary values. Popular literature plays a critical role in helping Haredi Jews to understand themselves as different, even as it shows them to be very much the same.

General

Imprint:	Academic Studies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	July 2011
Authors:	Yoel Finkelman
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	258
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-61811-002-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	1-61811-002-0
Barcode:	9781618110022

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