Highlighting Diverse Collections: Jewish Heritage Month
Jewish Heritage Month, observed every May in the United States, recognizes American Jewish contributions and achievements and their role in the formation of US society and culture. To celebrate, we are highlighting a few works that were recently acquired for our collection, regarding Jewish culture, identity, history, and lived experiences.
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This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship.
Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America explores the benefits of reconfiguring the ethnic concept as a tool to analyze the experiences of twentieth-century American Jews—not only in relation to other “white” groups of European descent, but also African Americans and Asian Americans, among others.
The relationship between the world’s two largest Jewish communities – in Israel and the United States – is a complicated one. It is consequential to Judaism, but it sheds light also on broader cultural issues at the forefront of American life, such as nationalism, Judeo-Christian relations, antisemitism, and the special relationship between Israel and the United States.
This volume presents the American Jewish community on the cusp of the third decade of the 21st century, shows a community grappling with a society where religious identity is increasingly understood as chosen, and reveals a shift in movements such as in Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews.
This book offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism has garnered attention, authority and controversy in the late 20th century. It considers the ways in which theological writings, sweeping social changes, individual or small-group needs, and intra-communal diversity have re-energized Judaism even amidst secular trends in America and Israel.
An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place—that is, the emotional, geographical, and psychological spaces that women inhabit.
This volume provides a detailed overview of the complex and interlocking web of anti-Jewish hatred based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, economic issues, and conspiracy theory that is commonly referred to as ‘antisemitism.’ It includes three case studies illustrating the diverse nature of the phenomenon, including examples from the political far right, the political hard left, and radical Islamism.
Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, the film captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.
Queer and Jewish coming-of-age drama. Caught up in the tight constraints of his community, a young Russian immigrant develops a close friendship with his grandfather's new neighbors -- two closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss.
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