The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:
- How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies.
- How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks.
- Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures.
With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.
Part 1: Defining Terms: Disciplinary Perspectives
1. Anthropology, Misha
Klein
2. Music, Judah M. Cohen
3. Literary Studies, Marc Caplan
4. Sociology,
Ben Gidley
5. Religious Studies, Andrea Lieber
6. History, Klaus Hödl
7. Art
History, Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver
8. Film, Television, and New Media
Studies, Nathan Abrams Part 2: Theorizing Contemporary Jewish Cultures
9.
Power, Michael Rothberg
10. Textuality, Devorah Baum
11. Religious/Secular,
Naomi Seidman
12. Memory, Nils Roemer
13. Bodies, Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
14. Spaces, Barbara E. Mann
15. Networks, Laurence Roth
Part 3: Case Studies in Contemporary Jewish Cultures
16. "Jewface" and
"Jewfaēade" in Poland, Spain, and Birobidzhan, S.I. Salamensky
17. Television
Blackface: Jews, Race and Comedy in the UK and Australia, Jon Stratton
18.
Mizrahi/Arab/Israeli/Queer: The Cultural Politics of Dana International, Ted
Swedenburg
19. Jewish News Making: Imagining Audiences in the Turkish Public
Sphere, Marcy Brink-Danan
20. The Idea of Yiddish: Re-globalizing North
American Jewish Culture, Amelia Glaser
21. Yiddish and Multilingual Urban
Space in Montreal, Sherry Simon
22. Pop, Piety, and Modernity: The Changing
Spaces of Orthodox Culture, Abigail Wood
23. Seeing and Being in Contemporary
Orthodox Jewish Dress, Jonathan S. Marion
24. Life Drawing: Autobiography,
Comics, Jewish Women, Sarah Lightman
25. Playing with History: Jewish
Subjectivity in Contemporary Lens Based Art, Rachel Garfield
26. Scoreboard:
Sports and American Jewish Identities, David J. Leonard
27. Theorizing
"Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative, Yulia Egorova
28.
Jewish Spirituality and Late Capitalism, Ayala Fader
Laurence Roth is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Susquehanna University, USA.
Nadia Valman is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
