Imagining Jewish authenticity: vision and text in American Jewish thought /Ken Koltun-Fromm.
- Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: visual authenticity in the American Jewish imaginary -- The anxiety of authenticity in image and text -- Seeing Israel in Bernard Rosenblatt's social Zionism -- Seeing things in Abraham Joshua Heschel's the Sabbath -- Seeing food in the Jewish home beautiful and Kosher by design -- The language of Jewish bodies in Michael Wyschogrod's the Body of Faith -- The language of gendered bodies in Rachel Adler's Engendering Judaism -- The language of racial bodies in Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's The Colors of Jews -- Conclusion: imagining Jewish authenticity in every generation.
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Judaism--United States. Jews--Identity.--United States Jews--Intellectual life.--United States Metaphor.