Description: Further DetailsTitle: Doubting the DevoutCondition: NewSubtitle: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American ImaginationISBN-10: 0231141866EAN: 9780231141864ISBN: 9780231141864Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/28/2009Description: Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war between America's ultra-Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews, one that has found a particularly creative voice in literature, media, and film. Unpacking the work of Allegra Goodman, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Erich Segal, Anne Roiphe, and others, as well as television shows and films such as A Price Above Rubies, Nora L. Rubel investigates the choices non-haredi Jews have made as they represent the character and characters of ultra-Orthodox Jews. In these artistic and aesthetic acts, Rubel recasts the war over gender and family and the anxieties over acculturation, Americanization, and continuity. More than just a study of Jewishness and Jewish self-consciousness, Doubting the Devout will speak to any reader who has struggled to balance religion, family, and culture.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Nora L RubelGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & Spirituality, Literary CriticismBook Series: Religion and American CultureRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Doubting the Devout
Title: Doubting the Devout
Subtitle: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination
ISBN-10: 0231141866
EAN: 9780231141864
ISBN: 9780231141864
Release Date: 12/28/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Doubting the Devout : the Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, American / General, Judaism / Orthodox, Jewish
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science, History
Author: Nora L. Rubel
Item Length: 0.8 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: Religion and American Culture Ser.
Format: Hardcover
