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Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

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How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating and original study of the interplay between material culture and Jewish thought. Ken Koltun-Fromm draws from philosophy, cultural studies, literature, psychology, film, and photography to portray the vibrancy and richness of Jewish practice in America. His analyses of Mordecai Kaplan's obsession with journal writing, Joseph Soloveitchik's urban religion, Abraham Joshua Heschel's fascination with objects in The Sabbath, and material identity in the works of Anzia Yezierska, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as Jewish images on the covers of Lilithmagazine and in the Jazz Singer films, offer a groundbreaking approach to an understanding of modern Jewish thought and its relation to American culture.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253354549
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.6960973
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 342
Weight: 589g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 21mm