{"product_id":"authentically-jewish-identity-culture-and-the-struggle-for-recognition-9781978827608","title":"Authentically Jewish: Identity, Culture, and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind conflicts over who and what should be recognized as authentically Jewish.  Although the concept of authenticity has been around for several centuries, it became a central focus for Jews since existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre raised the question in the 1940s. Building on the work of Sartre, later Jewish thinkers, philosophers, anthropologists, and cultural theorists, the book offers a model of Jewish authenticity that seeks to balance history and tradition, creative freedom and innovation, and the importance of recognition among different groups within an increasingly multicultural Jewish community.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Author Stuart Z. Charmé explores how debates over authenticity and struggles for recognition are a key to understanding a wide range of controversies between Orthodox and liberal Jews, Zionist and diaspora Jews, white Jews and Jews of color, as well as the status of intermarried and messianic Jews, and the impact of Jewish genetics.  In addition, it discusses how and when various cultural practices and traditions such as klezmer music, Israeli folk dance, Jewish yoga and meditation, and others are recognized as authentically Jewish, or not.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Jewish Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Changing Faces of Jewish Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Recognition and Authenticity:   From Sartre to Multiculturalism\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Authentically Jewish Religion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Orthodoxy and the Authentic Jew\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Reforming Tradition and the Spiritual Quest\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Authentic Experience and Spirituality:  Meditation, Yoga, Kabbalah\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Messianic Heresy and the Struggle for Authenticity   \u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Authentic Jewish Peoplehood\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Creating Authentic Jewish Culture in Israel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Shtetl Authenticity:  From “Fiddler” to the Revival of Klezmer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Becoming Jewish:  Intermarriage and Conversion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Authentically Jewish Genes\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Struggles for Recognition and Authentication\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Lost Jewish Tribes in Ethiopia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Black Jews in the United States\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Crypto-Jews of the Southwest\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: Newly-Found Jews and the Regimes of Recognition\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e About the Author","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415258046807,"sku":"9781978827608","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/authentically-jewish-identity-culture-and-the-struggle-for-recognition-9781978827608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}