American Jewry and the re-invention of the East European Jewish past
| Titel: | American Jewry and the re-invention of the East European Jewish past / Markus Krah |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018] |
| Umfang: | XIII, 289 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; volume 9 |
| Hochschulschrift: | Dissertation, Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York |
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| ISBN: | 9783110499926 ; 3110499924 ; 9783110499438 ; 9783110497144 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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- Illustrations
- p. viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Obsessively Engaged: Postwar American Jewry and the East European Past
- p. 3
- A Community Coming of Age - by Trying on a Usable Past
- p. 5
- Jews in Postwar America: a Not-So-Golden Era?
- p. 7
- State of the Field
- p. 10
- From Yiddish to English: a Multiplicity of Sources
- p. 12
- Methodology and Discipline: Discourse Analysis and Cultural History
- p. 14
- Chapter Overview
- p. 16
- Larger Patterns: Memory in American and Jewish Contexts
- p. 18
- 1
- The Search for New Modes of Jewishness in Postwar America
- p. 21
- Interwar Years: Yiddishkayt in the Urban Ghetto - Doomed to Decline
- p. 22
- Mourning the World of East European Jewry - Claiming American Legitimacy
- p. 25
- American Crisis and Jewish Inclusion
- p. 30
- Suburbia as Uncharted Territory - Synagogues Marking Jewishness
- p. 34
- Jewishness Redux - the Wounded Jewish Soul and the East European Medicine
- p. 42
- 2
- Launching a Discourse: YIVO's Bridge From the Old World to the New
- p. 47
- Weinreich Puts Adolescent American Jewry on Freud's Couch
- p. 53
- YIVO: Research Institute, Myth, or Instrument of Self-Expression?
- p. 60
- Forging an American Jewishness - on Yiddish Terms
- p. 65
- 3
- New (York) Jewish Intellectuals: The Past as Culture
- p. 71
- New York Jewish Intellectuals: Refashioning Their Jewishness Out of the Past
- p. 75
- Bridging the Gap Between the Intellectuals and the Community
- p. 80
- Dialectics of Jewish Pastness and American Presentness
- p. 86
- Accepting Ambivalence - Vis-à-Vis Eastern Europe and America
- p. 89
- Translating the East European Past for the American Jewish Present
- p. 93
- 4
- Religious Culture as an Antidote to Liberal Judaism and Secular Jewishness
- p. 96
- Judaism: Eastern Europe as a Resource for a Broader Concept of Judaism
- p. 97
- Heschel's Apotheosis of Ashkenazic Jewish Life
- p. 103
- Soloveitchik: Bringing "Halakhic Man" from Lithuania to America
- p. 110
- 5
- Spiritual Needs, the Past, and the Denominational Landscape
- p. 119
- Reform: Taking a New Look at a Distant Past
- p. 119
- Conservative Judaism: East European Jewishness as ersatz Yiddishkayt
- p. 126
- Orthodoxy: Silencing, Historicizing, Idolizing the Recent East European Past
- p. 132
- Renewing American Judaism on Religious Terms Found in the Past
- p. 143
- 6
- From East European Radicalism to Postwar American Progressivism
- p. 144
- Journalistic Infighting Over Communism and Jewishness
- p. 147
- American Jews: Mindlessly Assimilating, or Forming a New Spiritual Center?
- p. 151
- East European Folk Culture as Part of Jewish Leftists' Political Project
- p. 154
- Memory as Content, From a Means to an End
- p. 158
- Preserving the Heritage - Sacred Duty in the Service of Continuity
- p. 163
- 7
- Presenting a Rich Jewish Culture: The Eternal Light and Life Is with People
- p. 167
- The Eternal Light: East European Spiritual Jewishness Made Audible
- p. 169
- Aestheticizing Judaism - On a "High Church" Note
- p. 176
- Life Is with People: Ethnography Presents a Rich East European Jewish Culture
- p. 179
- "Sex, Taboo, and Superstition:" Attracting American Jewish Interest in the Shtetl
- p. 184
- 8
- Making Jewishness Meaningful: In School and In Hasidism
- p. 189
- Textbook Cases: Spiritual Culture as a Source of Fortitude in the Face of Persecution
- p. 194
- Hasidism: Everyone's Third Way
- p. 200
- Hasidic Wholeness, Antinomianism, Ethical Judaism, and Pro to -Socialism
- p. 205
- 9
- Tevye in Kasrilevke, the Fiddler in America: East European Jewishness in Literature
- p. 212
- Maurice Samuel Applies Sholem Aleichem to America
- p. 212
- Affirmation or Alienation: The Jewishness of Cultural Translators
- p. 217
- Isaac Rosenfeld: From Alienation to the Affirmation of a Cultural Jewishness
- p. 219
- A Sacred Treasure: Anthologizing East European Yiddishkayt for American Jews
- p. 224
- The Postwar Shtetl: Re-Invention of "the Greatest Invention of Yiddish Literature"
- p. 227
- Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Subversive Spirituality of East European Judaism
- p. 230
- Final Curtain: Fiddler on the Roof
- p. 234
- 10
- Conclusion: Re-Inventing Jewishness Out of Memory
- p. 241
- A New Idea Out of Many Failing Ones
- p. 246
- Community of Memory
- p. 249
- Re-Inventing the Past to Re-Invent Jewish Ethnicity
- p. 254
- Epilogue
- p. 258
- Bibliography
- p. 261
- Index
- p. 285
