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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jodi eichler levine”
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  • Blessings Beyond the Binary

    Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family

    by Martin Shuster, Jodi Eichler-Levine, Sarah Bunin Benor, Jarrod Tanny, Shaul Magid, Jennifer Glaser, Kathryn Lofton, Shari Rabin, Joshua Falek, Kerstin Steitz, Marilyn Reizbaum, Warren Hoffman, Professor Josh Lambert, Professor Ranen Omer-Sherman ...
    Transparent made history as the first television show to feature a transgender character in the main role, as the first streaming series to win the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and as, in the words of journalist Debra Nussbaum Cohen, “the Jewiest show ever.” No television show in history has depicted the lives of American Jews with as much attention to Jewish rituals, quirks, or ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis

    How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community

    by Jodi Eichler-Levine ...
    Series series Where Religion Lives
    Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement. As she traveled across the country to homes, craft conventions, synagogue knitting circles, and craftivist actions, she joined in the making, asked questions, and contemplated her own family stories. Jewish Americans, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Suffer the Little Children

    Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature

    by Jodi Eichler-Levine ...
    Series series North American Religions
    Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children’s literatureThrough close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the histories in question are traumatic ones. In the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle Passage and flight from Eastern ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Suffer the Little Children

    Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature

    by Jodi Eichler-Levine ...
    Series series North American Religions
    Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children’s literatureThrough close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the histories in question are traumatic ones. In the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle Passage and flight from Eastern ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Becoming Frum

    How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism

    by Sarah Bunin Benor ...
    Series series Jewish Cultures of the World
    Winner, 2013 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish LiteratureWhen non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through ... Read more

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  • Orthodox by Design

    Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution

    by Jeremy Stolow ...
    Orthodox by Design, a groundbreaking exploration of religion and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish publishing house, purveyor of handsomely designed editions of sacred texts and a major cultural force in contemporary Jewish public life. In the first in-depth study of the ArtScroll revolution, Jeremy Stolow traces the ubiquity of ArtScroll books in local retail markets, ... Read more

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  • Jews and Humor

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this ... Read more

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  • From Memory to Transformation

    Jewish Women's Voices

    Edited by Sarah Silberstein Swartz, Margie Wolfe ...
    Not satisfied by the established roles assigned to them, Jewish women have begun to uncover their history, religion and culture using tradition and memory to inspire and transform their lives. In From Memory to Transformation, women activists, rabbis, sch ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)

    Edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff, Nancy E. Berg ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what extent is that status affected by evolving Jewish identities and shifting attitudes toward Israel ... Read more

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  • Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture

    by Judith Ruderman ...
    This scholarly study explores the conflicting forces of assimilation and cultural heritage in literary portrayals of Jewish American identity.In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being ... Read more

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  • Theatrical Liberalism

    Jews and Popular Entertainment in America

    by Andrea Most ...
    Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish StudiesFor centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of popular theater and film–especially in America. Why?In Theatrical Liberalism, Andrea Most illustrates howAmerican Jews used the theatre and other ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Marrying Out

    Jewish Men, Intermarriage, & Fatherhood

    by Keren R. McGinity ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    "Captures the telling details and the idiosyncratic trajectory of interfaith relationships and marriages in America." — The ForwardWhen American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. In this provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a ... Read more

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