Authentically Jewish identity, culture, and the struggle for recognition / Stuart Z. Charmé.
| Author/creator | Charmé, Stuart L. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022] |
| Description | viii, 301 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Identity, culture, and the struggle for recognition |
| Contents | The Changing Faces of Jewish Authenticity -- Recognition and Authenticity : From Sartre to Multiculturalism -- Orthodoxy and the Authentic Jew -- Reforming Tradition and the Spiritual Quest -- Authentic Experience and Spirituality : Meditation, Yoga, Kabbalah -- The Messianic Heresy and the Struggle for Authenticity -- Creating Authentic Jewish Culture in Israel -- Shtetl Authenticity : From "Fiddler" to the Revival of Klezmer -- Becoming Jewish : Intermarriage and Conversion -- Authentically Jewish Genes -- Lost Jewish Tribes in Ethiopia -- Black Jews in the United States -- Crypto-Jews of the Southwest -- Newly-Found Jews and the Regimes of Recognition. |
| Abstract | "This book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind conflicts over who and what should be recognized as authentically Jewish. Although the concept of authenticity has been around for several centuries, it became a central focus for Jews since existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre raised the question in the 1940s. Building on the work of Sartre, later Jewish thinkers, philosophers, anthropologists, and cultural theorists, the book offers a model of Jewish authenticity that seeks to balance history and tradition, creative freedom and innovation, and the importance of recognition among different groups within an increasingly multicultural Jewish community. Author Stuart Z. Charmé explores how debates over authenticity and struggles for recognition are a key to understanding a wide range of controversies between Orthodox and liberal Jews, Zionist and diaspora Jews, white Jews and Jews of color, as well as the status of intermarried and messianic Jews, and the impact of Jewish genetics. In addition, it discusses how and when various cultural practices and traditions such as klezmer music, Israeli folk dance, Jewish yoga and meditation, and others are recognized as authentically Jewish, or not"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021046807 |
| ISBN | 9781978827608 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781978827592 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |