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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Jewishness"”.
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Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
<p>My dissertation analyzes early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality and explores how early Christian writers attacked opponents by depicting them as subjects of perverse or excessive sexual desires. Beginning with the New Testament, I examine how Paul employed sexual stereotypes to …
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Representations of Jews and Jewishness in English painting, 1887-1914
This thesis concerns itself with pictorial representations of Jewish subjects in the period between the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition on 1887 and the Twentieth Century Art Exhibition at the Whitechapel in 1914, on the eve of the First World War. It is organised in two parts. Its beginning and …
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Negotiating Jewishness : identity and citizenship in the Leeds Jewish community
… particular formula of Jewish identity, `private Jewishness and public Englishness', which, in the second part of the 20th century, was challenged by multicultural citizenship. The policies of multiculturalism, aimed at the political recognition and even encouragement of ethnic, racial and …
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A shanda fur de Yehudim: Jewishness in network sitcom television.
This thesis is a cultural study of Jewishness in network sitcom television. Sources for the study included: historical film analysis, sociological studies on stereotyping and Jewish culture. The thesis studies how past forms of Jewishness impacted the current depictions of Jewishness on the …
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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
Using the framework of political economy of media, this dissertation examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, …
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The relationship between Jewish ethnic and religious identity
… to predict whether a subject would rate "ethnic" Jewishness as "very important" vs. "not very important" and "religious" Jewishness as "important" or "unimportant" based on a set of predictor variables. The findings indicate a significant relationship between the two dependent variables, very few …
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Jewish Exile and Immigration: Re-Imagining Home on the North Dakota Prairie
… Jewish Orthodoxy and more liberal forms of Jewishness. The writers of these memoirs generally produce these binaries through two methods. First, the content they introduce in their stories reflects opposing categories of Jewishness, such as Orthodox and Reform Judaism, that significantly …
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Contesting the Secular and Converting Space in Berlin? Becoming Jewish in an Urban Scene.
… which shows diverse and complex affiliations and Jewishness(es) entangled with nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality. Through the immersion in ‘Jewish’ and ‘Hebrew’ Berlin, I span an interrelated ethnographic field which I construe as a scene. Focusing on a choir, and its …
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The role of religious symbols in the identity of the Jewish community of the Western Cape
… cultures, obliterating all signs of their Jewishness. There were those who chose to culturally and nationally assimilate, yet to retain some of the religious symbols of Judaism (Reform). There were those who chose to try to find a synthesis between the new culture and their Jewishness, …
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Producing Representation: Re-Visiting Jewish Women in/on the American Sitcom
… for. It grapples with the contradictions behind Jewishness and gender, and questions why specific representations of identity appear in trends at certain times, while remaining absent in others. To address this, I articulate the shifting societal and industrial circumstances throughout the …
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
… yoking of their Jewishness and femaleness. Their texts illustrate their reaction to a history of patriarchal Judaism that relegates femaleness to the domestic sphere, and to a history of anti-Semitism that is marked by persecution, and, most explicitly, the …
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PASSING AS JEWISH: THE MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES OF RACE AND THE PROPERTY OF WHITENESS IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PASSING NOVELS
… analysis of how and why each text appropriates Jewishness. Ultimately, this thesis examines how other ethnoracial groups have interacted with Jewish Americans and how ethnic identity formations and designations are both complicated and dismantled by Jewishness. I conclude that contemporary …
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Experiencing Everyday Prejudice of a Concealabe Stigma: Jews in a non-Jewish World
… Jewish identity; importance of belonging; living Jewishness in a way that is meaningful; concerns about visibility of Jewishness; concerns about personal and group vulnerability including references to the Holocaust; and everyday encounters with prejudice. These themes share commonalities with …
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A Stage for a Bima: American Jewish Theater and the Politics of Representation
… voices in American theater have portrayed "Jewishness" as a permanent attribute of Jewish identity. In doing so, they articulate Jewish difference through the rhetoric of multiculturalism so that Jews are clearly positioned as distinct from an American mainstream. Contemporary Jewish …
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Ideological tension in four novels by Saul Bellow
… of the characters are attracted, and the latent Jewishness of their creator. Bellow's Jewish heritage suggests alternate ways of being to those advocated by the enlightened thought of liberal Humanism, for example, or by one of its offshoots, Existentialism, or by "wasteland" ideologies. Bellow …
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Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989
… by people grappling with Polishness and Jewishness both within themselves and society; by identity as something people struggle against and something they make for themselves.</p>
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature
… The Halle Passion play (1490's) emphasizes the Jewishness of Jesus and his disciples. Easter plays, in contrast, attribute to Jews sole guilt for Jesus's Crucifixion and exclusively venal motives. In hagiography (legends of St. Silvester, ""Der Judenknabe,"" Theophilus, St. Basil) Jews are …
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Hans Habes Roman Christoph und sein Vater - Zwischen persönlicher Verarbeitung und den westdeutschen Schuld- und Aufarbeitsdiskursen der Nachkriegszeit
… by Arnold Zweig and explores the question of Jewishness in a Christian society (chapter 4), Habe’s depiction of the Harlan family (chapter 5) and how the author discusses several problems of the 1960s German society (chapter 6). The interpretation concludes with a short summary (chapter 7). In …
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Inside/Outside/In-between: Understanding how Jewish Identity Impacts the Lives and Narratives of Ashkenazi Female Public School Educators
… decisions regarding the degree to which her Jewishness was presented in the classroom and on campus, they did not actively design their curriculum due to them being Jewish; rather they unconsciously incorporated aspects of Judaism in their pedagogy.</p>
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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 …
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