Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Religion and American Culture) - Image 1

£56.11

Columbia University Press Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Religion and American Culture)

Name: Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Religion and American Culture)
Brand: Columbia University Press
Price: 55.68 GBP
Availability: InStock

History & Criticism

Price History & Forecast

Last 60 days • 60 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 60 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £56 (60 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £56 - £56

Price levels: 1 different prices over 60 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Columbia University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0231141866
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 December 2009
Listed Since: 08 May 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Columbia University Press Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Religion and American Culture)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken

Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America (Religion and American Culture)

Defenders of the Faith: Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy and Reform (Touro University Press)

Routledge Judaism and Collective Life - Religious Kibbutz Study

The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life

Canada's Jews: In Time, Space & Spirit (Jews in Space and Time): In Time, Space and Spirit

When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash (Routledge Approaches to History)

Wissenschaft des Judentums zwischen Norditalien und Deutschland: Transfers, Debatten, Netzwerke im 19. Jahrhundert: 2 (Religiöse Positionierungen in Judentum, Christentum Und Islam)

God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel’s Media (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays

The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century (Routledge Handbooks in Religion)

Routledge Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism

Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums: 102 (Studia Judaica, 102)

German Rabbis in British Exile: From ‘Heimat’ into the Unknown

Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)

Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought: The Dialectics of Revelation and History

Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Judaism: History, Belief and Practice

Judaism in the Modern World (B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies)

Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing

L'art juif