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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Jewish characters"”.
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„Ilyenek voltunk”– A zsidó identitástudat ábrázolásának kultúraszociológiai olvasata az amerikai játékfilmekben
… reading of the representation of the Jewish identity in the American feature films – From the beginning of the American movie history, there were lots of movies made, which had Jewish characters in leading roles. The Jewish characters in the movies of course not representing the Jews …
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Jewish Identity on American Television and Viewer Attitudes in an Era of Rising Anti-Semitism
… have shown that viewers form opinions regarding Jewish identity based on how Jewish characters are presented on screen. American entertainment has struggled with accurate portrayals of Jewish culture and characters; negative Jewish stereotypes frequently appear and perpetuate these perceptions. …
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature
… tend to take one of three attitudes towards the Jewish figure in Early Modern drama: either a) the depiction is intended to be anti-Semitic; b) philo-Semitic; c) that the playwrights are merely observing and documenting the anti-Semitism prevalent in Elizabethan London. This reductive view …
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth century was the fear that they might pass undetected and pollute the "purity" of English blood. In response to this phenomenon, the narratives in this study illuminate not only cultural anxiety about …
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"A Stranger in a Strange Land": A Translation of “An Icelandic Driver,” a Short Story by J. M. Bjarnason, with Analysis and Introduction to the Author
… identity, imagined communities, and anti-Jewish sentiments in the short story "An Icelandic Driver" (Íslenzkur ökumaður), which was written at the turn of the twentieth century by the Icelandic-Canadian author Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason. The story is remarkable within the context of Icelandic …
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'The Saga of a Whole People': Louis Golding's Rendering of Ashkenazi Jewish Experience in the Doomington Novels 1920-1954
… that he has clear significance as an Anglo-Jewish middlebrow writer who presented key aspects of twentieth-century Ashkenazi Jewish experience to a general as well as a Jewish popular readership. Furthermore, it argues that the ‘Doomington’ novels, produced between 1921 and 1954, reveal …
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A Stage for a Bima: American Jewish Theater and the Politics of Representation
… dissertation examines how contemporary American Jewish playwrights and performers have presented Jewish identities in light of multiculturalism. Although American Jews have by large been supporters of the multicultural movement, in practice multiculturalism has been problematic for Jews because …
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Medieval Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Teaching with and about Signs in Several Didactic Genres
… semiotic instruction and rendering it memorable. Jewish characters are further portrayed as working against these ideas, representatives of a failure to learn by seeing and believing, who seek instead to force interpretation through violence. Chapter 3 examines a genre in which the presence of …
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Subversive aspects of American musical theatre
… musical stage has often established the idea of Jewishness as pertaining to ethnicity, it has also elevated Jews to leading characters, often while simultaneously serving to place audiences in the position of having to confront their own antisemitism. While heteronormativity is certainly the …