scholarly journals Maurice Sendak’s Jewish Mother(s)

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
JODI EICHLER-LEVINE
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Mother

The Paradoxes of Postwar Domesticity

Mahjong ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Annelise Heinz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Home Life ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Domestic Roles ◽  
Jewish Mother

At the height of the postwar domestic revival, a subset of women who fully participated in the culture of domesticity nonetheless claimed a unique space for leisure with their peers in the form of a weekly evening mahjong game. Although the culture of mahjong could reinforce their domestic roles as much as undermine them, the weekly mahjong ritual explicitly came at the expense of both household labor and their family members’ comfort. Despite their claims on autonomous domestic leisure, mahjong-playing middle-class women became emblematic of the trappings of stereotypical postwar domesticity. As Jewish mahjong players established their strong cultural norms in the 1950s and 1960s, they became embedded in the evolving stereotype of the domineering Jewish mother. This association signaled the waning of both postwar domestic norms and the patterns of leisured domesticity that thrived within them, as economic changes and generational shifts transformed middle-class home life.

Nice Girls Gone Blue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Schwadron
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
The Body ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Performance Ethnography ◽  
At Will ◽  
Jewish Mother ◽  
A Performance

This chapter foregrounds a performance ethnography among New York’s Jewish neoburlesque and cabaret spoofs on the Hanukkah circuit from 2011 to 2016. By looking at what the body does to mock and modify stereotypes of the Jewish woman, it frames the ways that performers utilize physical humor to critique harmful images of the unsexy hag, Jewish mother, and Jewish American princess, while posing new identity gags. Yet in performing Otherness from positions of race privilege, Jewish neoburlesquers distance themselves from the very epochs they evoke, securing their status as white women who can presumably put on and take off Otherness at will.

A Jewish Female Cannibal in Two Seventeenth-Century Cantatas

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-470
Author(s):  
Don Harrán
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Full Text ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Jewish Mother

Laments were frequent in both cantatas and operas in the seventeenth century. The two emotions expressed in the lament were those that Aristotle connected with the essence of tragedy, namely, pity (on the fate of the one who laments) and fear (lest the observer share the same fate). Fear turns to fright in two mid-seventeenth century cantatas, in which a Jewish mother cooks her son, eats his flesh, and licks his blood in order to relieve her hunger, then bemoans her act in a lament. The present study describes examples of laments and female cannibals in Scriptures, identifies the particular female cannibal of the cantatas as Mary of Eleazar in Flavius Josephus’s The Jewish War, discusses the authors of the text and the composers of the cantatas, concluding with the relationship of the texts to the music. Following Aristotle’s notions of pity and fear, authors and composers maneuver between the contrary feelings of pathos and disgust in the cantatas. The full text of both cantatas appears in the appendix.

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