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The series Studies in Jewish Civilization, based on the annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and Harris Center for Judaic Studies, examines Jewish history and culture around the world and throughout history. Volume 17 includes fourteen essays that provide an overview of Jews and Judaism in American popular culture. Relevant discussions of music, film, television, literature, cartoons, sports, and material culture inform our current understanding of the influence that Jewish culture has in modern American society. Taken together, these essays make a strong case that appropriate analysis of popular culture is essential for a proper understanding of something as multifaceted and varied as American Judaism and the American Jewish community. The essays recognize, even if they cannot precisely define, something distinctly "Jewish" and distinctively "American" in each of the individuals and groups featured in this collection.

Table of Contents:
"Harness my Zebras": American Jews and the Pursuit of Pleasure; Picturing Prejudice in Hollywood's First Films about Anti-Semitism; Hollywood, the Holocaust, and World War II; David of Hollywood: Israelite King or American Superhero; "Hang Hitler" - The Three Stooges Take Potshots at Nazis; A Passion for Words for the Witty: S. J. Perlman, Jewish-American Satirist; From Sholem Aleichem to Harvey Fierstein and Wendy Wasserstein: Love Makes a Family - and History - in Jewish-American Performance; "Muggers in Black Coats": The Alleged Hijacking of American Judaism; The Crowning of a "Jewish Jordan": Tamir Goodman, the American Sports Media, and Modern Orthodox Jewry's Fantasy World; Tchotchkes: A Study of Popular Culture in Tangible Form; From Mr. Hankey to The Jewish Hammer: Hanukkah in Pop Culture; Absolutely Kosher Music: The Story of the American Jews in Rock and Roll; "Oh Mama, Could This Really be the End": The Apocalyptic Bob Dylan; Not Always a Laughing Matter: Jews and Judaism in the Comic Strips

About the Author :
Leonard J. Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University. Ronald A. Simkins is the director of the Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781881871569
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: v. 17 Studies in Jewish Civilisation
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1881871568
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 409 gr


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