American Jewry and the re-invention of the East European Jewish past / Markus Krah.
In the postwar years, American Jews obsessively engaged their East European past. In sermons, historical essays, literary criticism, political pamphlets, photography, and theater they made this past usable for their American present. The study traces this obsession to a sense of insecurity after the...
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2018]
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| Series: | New perspectives on modern Jewish history ;
v. 9. |
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Table of Contents:
- The search for new modes of Jewishness in postwar America
- Launching a discourse : YIVO's bridge from the Old World to the New
- New (York) Jewish intellectuals : the past as culture
- Religious culture as an antidote to liberal Judaism and secular Jewishness
- Spiritual needs, the past, and the denominational landscape
- From East European radicalism to postwar American progressivism
- Presenting a rich Jewish culture : the eternal light and life Is with people
- Making Jewishness meaningful : in school and in Hasidism
- Tevye in Kasrilevke, the Fiddler in America : East European Jewishness in literature
- Conclusion. Re-inventing Jewishness out of memory.