The Fractured Jew: An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology Via Identities in Popular Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004510128)

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.

Author: Joel West
ISBN-10: 9004510125
ISBN-13: 9789004510128
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2022
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.30d