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Here I am
\"In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, 'Abraham!' to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, 'Here I am.' Later, when Isaac calls out, 'My father!' to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, 'Here I am.' How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jewish Life in Austria and Germany Since 1945
Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book provides a comparative account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in both Germany and in Austria (where 98% live in the capital, Vienna) after 1945. The author explains the process of reconstruction over the next six decades, and its results in each country.The monograph focuses on the variety of prevailing perceptions about topics such as: the state of Israel, one's relationship to the country of residence, the Jewish religion, the aftermath of the Holocaust, and the influx of post-soviet immigrants. Cohen-Weisz examines the changes in Jewish group identity and its impact on the development of communities. The study analyzes the similarities and differences in regard to the political, social, institutional and identity developments within the two countries, and their changing attitudes and relationships with surrounding societies; it seeks to show the evolution of these two country's Jewish communities in diverse national political circumstances and varying post-war governmental policies.
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Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital
Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the
Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and
vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from
the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the
Second World War (1899-1939). In this multidisciplinary essay
collection, a cohort of international scholars provides an
integrated history of the arts and humanities in Poland by
illuminating the complex roles Jews in urban centers other than
Warsaw played in the creation of Polish and Polish Jewish culture.
Each essay presents readers with the extraordinary production and
consumption of culture by Polish Jews in literature, film, cabaret,
theater, the visual arts, architecture, and music. They show how
this process was defined by a reciprocal cultural exchange that
flourished between cities at the periphery-from Lwów and Wilno to
Kraków and Łódź-and international centers like Warsaw, thereby
illuminating the place of Polish Jews within urban European
cultures. Companion website (https://polishjewishmusic.iu.edu)
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Derrida's Marrano Passover : exile, survival, betrayal, and the metaphysics of non-identity
\"The first book devoted to Derrida's Marranism - his paradoxical 'non-Jewish Jewishness' - connecting it to the Derridean themes of exile, survival, betrayal and autobiography\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beyond the Land
This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.
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Keeping the mystery alive : Jewish mysticism in Latin American cultural production
\"This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. The overarching question is whether the authors presented question, or reproduce literally, traditional renditions of the Jewish mysticism, and how this aspect of their literature and visual art relates to the Latin American canon to which they belong\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jewish Odesa
Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in
Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in
Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely
cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted
since the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained its
independence.
Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum,
examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of
the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian
national project have all been questioned in recent years.
Jewish Odesa reveals how a city once famous for its
progressive Jewish traditions has become dominated by Orthodox
Judaism and framed by the agendas of international Jewish
organizations embedded in a religiosity that is foreign to the
city. Russia's war in Ukraine has forced Jewish identities with
ties to Odesa to change still further.
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Zionism
Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is
no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes
liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for
many, Zionism is a source of distaste if not disgust, and those who
reject it are no less passionate than those who embrace it. The
power of such emotions helps explain why a word originally
associated with territorial aspiration has survived so many years
after the establishment of the Israeli state. Zionism: An
Emotional State expertly demonstrates how the energy
propelling the Zionist project originates from bundles of feeling
whose elements have varied in volume, intensity, and durability
across space and time. Beginning with an original typology of
Zionism and a new take on its relationship to colonialism, Penslar
then examines the emotions that have shaped Zionist sensibilities
and practices over the course of the movement's history. The
resulting portrait of Zionism reconfigures how we understand Jewish
identity amidst continuing debates on the role of nationalism in
the modern world.
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