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Shaina Hammerman's Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarly work on Jewish visibility in cinema.

* American Jewish History *

Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews is an essential inclusion for any course on Jewish film, as its analyses of Hasidic images say as much about cultural Judaism as religious. It is also an important read for any scholar thinking about Jewish cultural productions of the late-twentieth century to the present through the prism of gender.

* Journal of Jewish Identities *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: When Jews are Like Jews
1. The Yarmulke beneath the Cowboy Hat: Signifying Jewishness in the Hasidic Western
2. The Jewish Type and le juif typique: Typologies of Jewishness in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
3. Hard-Core Jews: Woody Allen's Religious Women and Men
4. Cinema judéité: Projecting Jewish-Muslim Romance
5. What Lies beneath the Wig: Hester Street and Adaptation
Epilogue: Hijab, Habit, and Hasid
Filmography and Bibliography
Index

Silver Screen Hasidic Jews

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 6 January 2018
      ISBN-13 9780253031693
      978-0253031693
      ISBN-10 0253031699
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      Judaism

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Shaina Hammerman's Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarly work on Jewish visibility in cinema.

      * American Jewish History *

      Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews is an essential inclusion for any course on Jewish film, as its analyses of Hasidic images say as much about cultural Judaism as religious. It is also an important read for any scholar thinking about Jewish cultural productions of the late-twentieth century to the present through the prism of gender.

      * Journal of Jewish Identities *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: When Jews are Like Jews
      1. The Yarmulke beneath the Cowboy Hat: Signifying Jewishness in the Hasidic Western
      2. The Jewish Type and le juif typique: Typologies of Jewishness in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
      3. Hard-Core Jews: Woody Allen's Religious Women and Men
      4. Cinema judéité: Projecting Jewish-Muslim Romance
      5. What Lies beneath the Wig: Hester Street and Adaptation
      Epilogue: Hijab, Habit, and Hasid
      Filmography and Bibliography
      Index

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