The future of American Jewish pasts / edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore, and Beth S. Wenger.
| Other author | Berman, Lila Corwin, 1976- editor. |
| Other author | Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946- editor. |
| Other author | Wenger, Beth S., 1963- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025] |
| Description | vi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Jewish culture and contexts Jewish culture and contexts http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/d4a09c82-6180-4589-45f3-930b07e45efe ^A540726 |
| Contents | Introduction. On contexts and questions / Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore, and Beth S. Wenger -- Prologue. Re-narrations of American Jewish life / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Americanization politics and the Yiddish press / Ayelet Brinn -- American Zionism and racial justice : New perspectives from the past / Noam Pianko -- Rethinking American Jewish liberation : Jewish communists and Jewish Life, 1946-56 / Kate Rosenblatt -- American Jewish history as told by the Irish, 1870-1930 / Hasia R. Diner -- Protestant theology and the goals of Jewish-Christian relations / Jessica Cooperman and Amy Weiss -- On the importance of coalitional feminism to American Jewish history / Lana Dee Povitz -- Catching the Hewbrew accent : performing race in American Jewish culture / Heather S. Nathans -- Schoken books : the story of a Jewish publisher and American race consciousness / Markus Krah -- Retelling Jewish American literature through women writers / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Jewish lightning : the enduring figure of the Jewish arsonist / Britt Tevis -- Hooked to a family story : mundane objects and Holocaust representation / Tobias Brinkmann -- Taking leave while holding fast : Jewish congregations and their buildings in twenty-first century America / Alanna E. Cooper -- "Can I ask you a question?" / story by Laurence Roth, art by JT Waldman. |
| Abstract | "The Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the study of American Jewish life. Conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic and completed just before the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war, this innovative volume gathers leading scholars of American Jewish experience to ask what the future of the study of the American Jewish past holds. The contributors reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life and delve into underexplored topics to present a vision of a rich future for the field of American Jewish studies. Essays on antisemitism, Zionism, liberalism, immigration, feminism, family histories, and more stake out new sources, methods, and interpretations of histories and historiographies. To understand American Jewish life in its complexity and richness, these essays engage multiple disciplines, including history, ethnography, and literary studies. Many showcase comparative or theoretical approaches that illuminate new dimensions of American Jewish studies, and others offer personal reflections to reveal how scholars' own life stories intersect with the questions that animate their scholarship. For students, scholars, and the general public, this interdisciplinary volume provides a tantalizing selection of the freshest approaches to understanding American Jewish life"--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Future of American Jewish pasts. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025] 9781512828252 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781512828252 |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2025028404 |
| ISBN | 9781512828245 |
| ISBN | 1512828246 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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