Jewhooing the Sixties

Jewhooing the Sixties PDF Author: David Kaufman
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Book Description
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

Jewhooing the Sixties

Jewhooing the Sixties PDF Author: David Kaufman
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Book Description
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

Jewhooing the Sixties

Jewhooing the Sixties PDF Author: David Kaufman
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611683149
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Book Description
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

The Greatest Jewish City in the World

The Greatest Jewish City in the World PDF Author: Harry Golden
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Jacob H. Schiff

Jacob H. Schiff PDF Author: Naomi Wiener Cohen
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874519488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Book Description
The first full-scale biography of a major Jewish leader and financier.

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand PDF Author: Neal Gabler
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Book Description
Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless. Neal Gabler examines Streisand’s life and career through this prism of otherness—a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention—and shows how central it was to Streisand’s triumph as one of the voices of her age.

A Philosophical Autofiction

A Philosophical Autofiction PDF Author: Spencer Golub
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030056120
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
This is a book about what becomes of the truth when it succumbs to generational memory loss and to the fictions that intervene to cause and fill the gaps. It is a book about the impossibility of writing an autobiography when there is a prepossessing cultural and familial 'we' interfering with the 'I' and an 'I' that does not know itself as a self, except metastatically — as people and characters it has played but not actually been. A highly original combination of close readings and performative autobiography, this book takes performance philosophy to an alternative next step, by having its ideas read back to it by experience, and through assorted fictions. It is a philosophical thought experiment in uncertainty whose literary, theatrical, and cinematic trappings illustrate and finally become what this uncertainty is, the thought experiment having become the life that was, that came before, and that outlives the 'I am'.

Shul with a Pool

Shul with a Pool PDF Author: David Kaufman
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
The evolution of an American institution that reflects the unique tension between Judaism and Jewishness.

No Small Matter

No Small Matter PDF Author: Anat Helman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019757730X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Book Description
Visiting five continents and covering 220 years, our journey into modern Jewish childhood begins with birth and ends at the time of bar or bat mitzvah. Jewish children, their history and their images, are described by scholars from the fields of demography, history, linguistics, film studies, literature, religious studies, and psychology. Among the questions they probe are: How did Jewish children experience immigration? What did they contribute to modern ethnic and national Jewish cultures? What was their fate during times of war? In the aftermath of war, how did they go about rebuilding their lives, and how did they recollect and interpret the events of their interrupted childhood?

Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s

Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s PDF Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666941859
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Book Description
Following the Holocaust, American literature experienced a resurgence of Jewish themes, characters, and contributions. This book focuses on the genres of science fiction and fantasy of the post-Holocaust period and argues that while the era was colored by grief, it also offered a renaissance of Jewish creative expression. The author provides an overview of texts beginning with the rise of Jewish speculative fiction anthologies in science fiction and fantasy and delving into emerging subgenres such as alternate history, post-apocalyptic, cold war, second-wave feminism, counterculture parodies, new wave, postmodernism, and cyberpunk to illustrate how Jewish culture made its mark on popular culture. The book also covers the Silver Age and Bronze Age of comics which saw Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Julius Schwartz, and Marv Wolfman form new superhero teams to battle prejudice and draws parallels with some of the most impactful shows made by Jewish creators, including Star Trek, Twilight Zone, and Doctor Who. The analysis also looks beyond the American context to include texts from Germany, the Soviet Union, Brazil, and Israel.

Pennies for Heaven

Pennies for Heaven PDF Author: Daniel Judson
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512602752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Book Description
The first book-length treatment of how synagogues are financed in the United States