Forging Modern Jewish Identities Public Faces and Private Struggles

by Tananbaum, Susan; Bloom, Sam; Berkowitz, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780853034551
• ISBN10: 0853034559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

Forging Modern Jewish Identities illuminates facets of modern Jewish identity through engagement with diverse historical moments, political and social currents and literature as an aspect of popular culture. This volume is distinctive, and it can be enjoy

Author Biography

Michael Berkowitz is Reader in Modern Jewish History at University College London Sam W. Bloom is Lecturer in the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel Lawrence G. Charap, Independent Scholar, is employed by Digital Learning Interactive Miriam Dean-Otting is Professor of Religious Studies, Kenyon College, Ohio Musya Glants is at the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History, the Parkes Centre for Jewish-Non-Jewish Relations and the Department of History, University of Southampton Michelle Mart is Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Alice S. Nakhimovsky, is Professor of Russian, Colgate University, New York Stanislao G. Pugliese is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Hofstra University and a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University Glenn Sharfman is Professor of History, Hiram College, Ohio Daniel Soyer is Associate Professor of History, Fordham University, New York Susan L. Tananbaum is Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College, Maine Peter Vardy is Emeritus Lecturer in Philosophy, Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(15)
Anthologizing Jews Michael Berkowitz
Susan L. Tananbaum
Sam W. Bloom
Revisiting the Old World: American-Jewish Tourists in Inter-war Eastern Europe	16	(23)
Daniel Soyer
`Our Esteemed Christian Contemporaries': Inter-Faith Dialogue in the American Hebrew, 1885--1908	39	(17)
Lawrence Charap
Acceptance and Assimilation: Jews in 1950s American Popular Culture	56	(25)
Michelle Mart
Going against the Grain: Two Jewish Memoirs of War and Anti-War, 1914--18	81	(34)
Mark Levene
`Morally Depraved and Abnormally Criminal': Jews and Crime in London and New York, 1880--1940	115	(25)
Susan L. Tananbaum
Marcel Proust and the Comedy of Assimilation	140	(16)
Sam W. Bloom
Mikhail Zhvanetskii: The Last Russian-Jewish Joker	156	(24)
Alice Nakhimovsky
Between Two Worlds: The Dual Identity of Russian-Jewish Artists in the Late Nineteenth Century	180	(18)
Musya Glants
Between Identities: The German-Jewish Youth Movement Blau-Weiss, 1912--26	198	(31)
Glenn R. Sharfman
Assimilation and Return in Two Generations of Czech-Jewish Women: Berta Fanta and Else Fanta Bergmann	229	(20)
Miriam Dean-Otting
Epiphanies: Hungarian-Jewish Experiences and the Shoah	249	(20)
Peter Vardy
Resisting Fascism: The Politics and Literature of Italian Jews, 1922--45	269	(16)
Stanislao G. Pugliese
Index	285