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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Jewish Authenticity -- 1 The Changing Faces of Jewish Authenticity -- 2 Recognition and Authenticity: From Sartre to Multiculturalism -- 3 Orthodoxy and the Authentic Jew -- 4 Reforming Jewish Tradition and the Spiritual Quest -- 5 The Experiential Authenticity of Jewish Meditation, Jewish Yoga, and Kabbalah -- 6 The Messianic Heresy and the Struggle for Authenticity -- Part III Authentic Jewish Peoplehood -- 7 Creating a National Jewish Culture in Israel -- 8 Shtetl Authenticity: From Fiddler on the Roof to the Revival of Klezmer -- 9 Becoming Jewish: Intermarriage and Conversion -- 10 Authentically Jewish Genes -- Part IV Struggles over Authentication and Recognition -- 11 Lost Jewish Tribes in Ethiopia -- 12 Recognizing Black Jews in the United States -- 13 Authenticating Crypto-Jewish Identity -- 14 Newly Found Jews and the Regimes of Recognition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
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| SUBJECT |
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 fast |
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Jews -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Judaism -- History -- 21st century
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Social perception -- History -- 21st century
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Jews -- Identity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Jews -- Social conditions
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Judaism
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Social perception
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021046807 |
| ISBN |
1978827628 |
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9781978827622 |
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9781978827615 |
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197882761X |
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9781978827608 |
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1978827601 |
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9781978827592 |
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1978827598 |
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