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Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

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Description for Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America paperback. Deals with the subject of how Jews think about and work with objects. This title draws from philosophy, cultural studies, literature, psychology, film, and photography to portray the vibrancy of Jewish practice in America. It offers an approach to an understanding of modern Jewish thought and its relation to American culture. Num Pages: 358 pages, 11 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCD; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.

How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating 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 Lilith magazine and in the Jazz ... Read more films, offer a groundbreaking approach to an understanding of modern Jewish thought and its relation to American culture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press (IPS) United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221834
SKU
V9780253221834
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99-50

About Ken Koltun-Fromm
Ken Koltun-Fromm is Professor of Religion at Haverford College and author of Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity (IUP, 2001), winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought, and Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism (IUP, 2006).

Reviews for Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America
Ken Koltun-Fromm's fascinating account of American Jewish thinkers' engagement with material culture explores a subject largely commanded by social historians . . . [His] chapters engage fascinating topics in clear-headed and searching discussions.
Shofar
Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America invites us to re-examine a range of religious-philosophical sources, for which we should be grateful.
Jewish ... Read more

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