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Historically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TV’s Mrs. Maisel is ostensibly a Jew, the actor playing her is not, and Mrs. Maisel’s actions are not always Jewish. In The Fractured Jew Joel West separates Judaism into phenomenological and performative, starting with popular portrayals of Jews and Judaism, in today’s media, as a jumping-off point to understand Judaism and Jewishness, not from the outside, but from the emic, internal, Jewish point of view.

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Preface and Acknowledgements  What This Book Is Not Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Who or What Is a Jew?  2 A Fractured Framework: Trauma, Identity, Ethnicity  3 Diachronic Denominationally Jewish  4 North American Semiotics: Jew, Jewish or Judaism as a Sign  5 North American Jews: Alienations  6 North American Jews: Denominations as History  7 Preforming Jew, Jewish, Judaism  8 The Jew Is a Joke—Internalized Antisemitism  Conclusion  References  Index

The Fractured Jew: An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology via Identities in Popular Culture

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 28/04/2022
      ISBN13: 9789004510128, 978-9004510128
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      Book Synopsis
      Historically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TV’s Mrs. Maisel is ostensibly a Jew, the actor playing her is not, and Mrs. Maisel’s actions are not always Jewish. In The Fractured Jew Joel West separates Judaism into phenomenological and performative, starting with popular portrayals of Jews and Judaism, in today’s media, as a jumping-off point to understand Judaism and Jewishness, not from the outside, but from the emic, internal, Jewish point of view.

      Table of Contents
      Preface and Acknowledgements  What This Book Is Not Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Who or What Is a Jew?  2 A Fractured Framework: Trauma, Identity, Ethnicity  3 Diachronic Denominationally Jewish  4 North American Semiotics: Jew, Jewish or Judaism as a Sign  5 North American Jews: Alienations  6 North American Jews: Denominations as History  7 Preforming Jew, Jewish, Judaism  8 The Jew Is a Joke—Internalized Antisemitism  Conclusion  References  Index

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