The Fractured Jew: An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology Via Identities in Popular Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51012-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

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Historically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TV’s Mrs. Maisel is ostensibly a Jew, the actor playing her is not, and Mrs. Maisel’s actions are not always Jewish. In The Fractured Jew Joel West separates Judaism into phenomenological and performative, starting with popular portrayals of Jews and Judaism, in today’s media, as a jumping-off point to understand Judaism and Jewishness, not from the outside, but from the emic, internal, Jewish point of view.

Autoren/Hrsg.

West, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

What This Book Is Not

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 Who or What Is a Jew?

2 A Fractured Framework: Trauma, Identity, Ethnicity

3 Diachronic Denominationally Jewish

4 North American Semiotics: Jew, Jewish or Judaism as a Sign

5 North American Jews: Alienations

6 North American Jews: Denominations as History

7 Preforming Jew, Jewish, Judaism

8 The Jew Is a Joke—Internalized Antisemitism

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joel West is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, studying the philosophy of cognitive science and the science of mind. His academic work is eclectic and ubiquitous, having published papers covering such topics as Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, understanding gender in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, and The Sign of the Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime as a Sign (Brill, 2020).