Authentically Jewish: Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition - Couverture souple

Charmé, Stuart Z.

 
9781978827592: Authentically Jewish: Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1978827598 ISBN 13 : 9781978827592
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind conflicts over who and what should be recognized as authentically Jewish. Although the concept of authenticity has been around for several centuries, it became a central focus for Jews since existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre raised the question in the 1940s. Building on the work of Sartre, later Jewish thinkers, philosophers, anthropologists, and cultural theorists, the book offers a model of Jewish authenticity that seeks to balance history and tradition, creative freedom and innovation, and the importance of recognition among different groups within an increasingly multicultural Jewish community.

Author Stuart Z. Charmé explores how debates over authenticity and struggles for recognition are a key to understanding a wide range of controversies between Orthodox and liberal Jews, Zionist and diaspora Jews, white Jews and Jews of color, as well as the status of intermarried and messianic Jews, and the impact of Jewish genetics. In addition, it discusses how and when various cultural practices and traditions such as klezmer music, Israeli folk dance, Jewish yoga and meditation, and others are recognized as authentically Jewish, or not.

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À propos de l'auteur

STUART Z. CHARMÉ is a professor of religion at Rutgers University-Camden in New Jersey. He is the author of two books on Sartrean existentialism, Meaning and Myth in the Study of Lives and Vulgarity and Authenticity: A Sartrean Approach as well as numerous articles on questions of Jewish identity and authenticity.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1978827598
ISBN 13 
9781978827592
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781978827608: Authentically Jewish: Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition

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ISBN 10 :  1978827601 ISBN 13 :  9781978827608
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2022
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