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Diasporas and exiles : varieties of Jewish identity
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Diasporas and exiles : varieties of Jewish identity

Author: Howard Wettstein
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores Jewish identity - or, more accurately, Jewish identities - from the mutually illuminating perspectives of anthropology, art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German history,  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Howard Wettstein
ISBN: 0520228642 9780520228641
OCLC Number: 49249549
Description: viii, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Diaspora and homeland / Erich S. Gruen --
Coming to terms with exile / Howard Wettstein --
Politics and poetics of diaspora: Heine's "Hebräische Melodien" / Bluma Goldstein --
Dancing at two weddings: Mazel between exile and Diaspora / Murray Baumgarten --
Portraiture and assimilation in Vienna: the case of Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat / Catherine M. Soussloff --
Different road to modernity: Jewish identity in the Arab world / Daniel J. Schroeter --
Remaking Jewish identity in France / Irwin Wall --
"This is not what I want": Holocaust testimony, postmemory, and Jewish identity / Diane L. Wolf --
Ideology of affliction: reconsidering the adversity thesis / Bernard Susser --
Jewish identity writ small: the everyday experience of Baalot Teshuvah / Louise E. Tallen --
Contesting identities in Jewish philanthropy / Kerri P. Steinberg.
Responsibility: edited by Howard Wettstein.
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"Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme.... This will be an important resource."-Hillel J. Kieval, author of Languages of Community

 
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