Too Jewish?

by Kleeblatt, Norman L.

• ISBN13: 9780813523279
• ISBN10: 0813523273
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Despite the resurgence of ethnic consciousness over the past decade, Jewish identity remains one of the least explored terrains in contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and identity-based art. This book takes a fresh, often confrontational, and sometimes humorous approach to newly considered representations of Jewish identity within these frameworks. 92 illustrations, 40 in color.

Table of Contents

Director's Statement	vii
Joan Rosenbaum
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Foreword: The Couturier and the Hasid	xvii
Linda Nochlin
``Passing'' into Multiculturalism	3	(36)
Norman L. Kleeblatt
C[Lement] Hardesh [Greenberg] and Company: Formal Criticism and Jewish Identity	39	(21)
Margaret Olin
The Jew's Body: Thoughts on Jewish Physical Difference	60	(14)
Sander L. Gilman
Why Jewish Princesses Don't Sweat: Desire and Consumption in Postwar American Jewish Culture	74	(19)
Riv-Ellen Prell
The Mouse That Never Roars: Jewish Masculinity on American Television	93	(15)
Maurice Berger
Jewish Barbie	108	(7)
Rhonda Lieberman
Notes on Akiba	115	(14)
Tony Kushner
Exhibition Checklist	129	(4)
The Plates	133	(22)
Artists' Biographies	155	(22)
Bibliography	177	(8)
The Jewish Museum Board of Trustees	185	(2)
Photo Credits	187