New PDF release: 'You Should See Yourself': Jewish Identity in Postmodern

By Vincent Brook

ISBN-10: 0813538440

ISBN-13: 9780813538440

ISBN-10: 0813538459

ISBN-13: 9780813538457

The prior few many years have obvious a notable surge in Jewish affects on American tradition. Entertainers and artists akin to Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Allegra Goodman, and Tony Kushner have heralded new waves of tv, movie, literature, and theater; an immense klezmer revival is below method; bagels are actually as usual as pizza; and kabbalah has turn into as cool as crystals. Does this extensive variety of cultural expression effectively mirror what it potential to be Jewish in the US today?

            Bringing jointly fourteen new essays via prime students, You may still See Yourself examines the fluctuating representations of Jewishness in numerous components of pop culture and excessive paintings, together with literature, the media, movie, theater, tune, dance, portray, images, and comedy. participants discover the evolution that has taken position inside of those cultural varieties and the way we will top clarify those adjustments. Are adaptations in our figuring out of Jewishness the results of normal phenomena similar to multiculturalism, politics, and postmodernism, or are they the manufactured from extra particularly Jewish issues akin to the intermarriage/continuity drawback, non secular renewal, and relatives among the U.S. and Israel?

            obtainable to scholars and basic readers alike, this quantity takes a massive step towards advancing the dialogue of Jewish cultural affects during this nation.

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