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Modern Jewish mythologies / edited by Glenda Abramson.

Contributor(s): Abramson, Glenda, 1938-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, 2000Description: ix, 197 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0878202161Subject(s): Jews -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Jews -- IdentityDDC classification: 305.892/4 LOC classification: DS113 | .M58 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: modern Jewish culture as a system of myths / Eli Yassif -- Social memory, history, and British Jewish identity / David Cesarani -- Myth and identity: the case of Latrun, 1948 / Anita Shapira -- "Community with a conscience": myth or reality? / Milton Shain and Sally Frankental -- The myth of masculinity reflected in Israeli cinema / Nurith Gertz -- "So Sarah laughed to herself" / Dan Urian -- Lest we forget! The Holocaust in Jewish historical consciousness and modern Jewish identities / Jonathan Webber -- Redemption from the Orient / Tudor Parfitt -- From ancient to modern Jewish mythologies / Eli Yassif -- The myth of life's supremacy over death: was Judaism always more concerned with life than with death? / Sylvie Anne Goldberg -- Franz Kafka: the unsinging singer / Matthew Olshan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: modern Jewish culture as a system of myths / Eli Yassif -- Social memory, history, and British Jewish identity / David Cesarani -- Myth and identity: the case of Latrun, 1948 / Anita Shapira -- "Community with a conscience": myth or reality? / Milton Shain and Sally Frankental -- The myth of masculinity reflected in Israeli cinema / Nurith Gertz -- "So Sarah laughed to herself" / Dan Urian -- Lest we forget! The Holocaust in Jewish historical consciousness and modern Jewish identities / Jonathan Webber -- Redemption from the Orient / Tudor Parfitt -- From ancient to modern Jewish mythologies / Eli Yassif -- The myth of life's supremacy over death: was Judaism always more concerned with life than with death? / Sylvie Anne Goldberg -- Franz Kafka: the unsinging singer / Matthew Olshan.

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