Title Jews, God, and videotape : religion and media in America / Jeffrey Shandler

Published New York : New York University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) : illustrations Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE Contents Cantors on trial -- Turning on The eternal light -- The scar without the wound -- Observant Jews -- A stranger among friends -- The virtual Rebbe -- New media/new Jews? an afterword 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 tourist practices as means for engaging the Holocaust as a moral touchstone, and the role of mass-produced material culture in Jews' responses to the American celebration of Christmas. Shandler argues that the impact of these and other media on American Judaism is varied and extensive: they have challenged the role of clergy and transformed the nature of ritual; facilitated innovations in religious practice and scholarship, as well as efforts to maintain traditional observance and teachings; created venues for outreach, both to enhance relationships with non-Jewish neighbors and to promote greater religiosity among Jews; even redefined the notion of what might constitute a Jewish religious community or spiritual experience. As Jews, God, and Videotape demonstrates, American Jews' experiences are emblematic of how religious communities' engagements with new media have become central to defining religiosity in the modern age Analysis "Multi-User" Notes OldControl:muse9780814708880 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Jews -- United States -- Communication Judaism -- 21st century. Judaism -- 20th century. Judaism -- United States Technology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Communication -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. RELIGION -- Judaism -- History. RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Communication -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Judaism Technology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Juden Judentum Massenmedien Medien Religion och massmedia -- judendom -- Förenta staterna. United States USA Juden. Form Electronic book LC no. 2008045773 ISBN 9780814708880 0814708889

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