Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; 1 Cantors on Trial; 2 Turning on The Eternal Light; 3 The Scar without the Wound; 4 Observant Jews; 5 A Stranger among Friends; 6 The Virtual Rebbe; New Media/New Jews?: An Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author
Summary
Engaging media has been an ongoing issue for American Jews, as it has been for other religious communities in the United States, for several generations. Jews, God, and Videotape is a pioneering examination of the impact of new communications technologies and media practices on the religious life of American Jewry over the past century. Shandler's examples range from early recordings of cantorial music to Hasidic outreach on the Internet. In between he explores mid-twentieth-century ecumenical radio and television broadcasting, video documentation of life cycle rituals, museum displays and tou
