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Strictly Kosher Reading - Popular Literature, Artscroll, and the Construction of Ultra-Orthodox Identity (Hardcover, New)
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Strictly Kosher Reading - Popular Literature, Artscroll, and the Construction of Ultra-Orthodox Identity (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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