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Book SynopsisHow Jews use media to connect with one another has profound consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. This volume explores how the use of media can both create communities and divide them because of how different media shape actions and project anxieties, conflicts, and emotions. Taken together, the essays presented here consider how Jewish use of media at home and in the street, as well as in the synagogue and in school, affects the individual’s sense of ethnic and religious affiliation. They include closely observed case studies, in various national contexts, of the role of popular film, television, records, the Internet, and smartphones, as well as the role of print media, now and historically. They raise fascinating questions about how Jews and Jewish institutions harness, tolerate, or resist media to create their sense of social belonging as Jews within the wider society.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Media, Mediation, and Jewish Community
Simon J. Bronner and Caspar BattegayPart I. The Impact of Texts on, and in, Jewish Community1. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Makers of Printed Books and the Shaping of Late Renaissance Jewish Literacy
Pavel Sládek 2. Settings of Silver: The Feminization of the Jewish Sabbath, 1920--1945
Amy K. Milligan3. Contemporary Israeli Midrash and the Construction of a Dialogic Intragroup Discourse
Tsafi Sebba-ElranPart II. Media, Performance, and Popular Discourse in the Formation of Jewish Community4. The Jewish Atlantic: Diaspora and Popular Music
Caspar Battegay5. The Hidden Legacies of Jewish Traditions and the Global Allure of Psychotherapy: A Case Study of the Israeli TV Series
BetipulDiana L. Popescu6. Propagating Modern Jewish Identity in Madagascar: A Contextual Analysis of One Community’s Discursive Strategies
Nathan P. Devir7. Telling Jokes: Connecting and Separating Jews in Analogue and Digital Culture
Simon J. BronnerPart III. Virtual Spaces for Jews in a Digital Age8. Going Online to Go ‘Home’:
Yizkor Books, Cyber-
Shtetls, and Communities of Location
Rachel Leah Jablon9. The Second Life of Judaism: A History of Religious Community and Practice in Virtual Spaces
Julian Voloj and Anthony Bak Buccitelli10. Rethinking Jewishness in Networked Publics: The Case of Post-Communist Hungary
Anna ManchinContributors
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