The Fractured Jew
An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology via Identities in Popular Culture
Published on 28. April 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-90-04-51012-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51012-8 (9789004510128)
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Person
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).
Content
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
?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