Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought

Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought
ISBN-10
0253015790
ISBN-13
9780253015792
Category
Religion
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
2015-01-28
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Author
Ken Koltun-Fromm

Description

Exploring how visual media presents claims to Jewish authenticity, Imagining Jewish Authenticity argues that Jews imagine themselves and their place within America by appealing to a graphic sensibility. Ken Koltun-Fromm traces how American Jewish thinkers capture Jewish authenticity, and lingering fears of inauthenticity, in and through visual discourse and opens up the subtle connections between visual expectations, cultural knowledge, racial belonging, embodied identity, and the ways images and texts work together.

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