Isaac Bashevis Singer ; or, the American-ness of the American Jewish Writer

Caliban ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Leslie Aaron Fiedler
Keyword(s):  
Isaac Bashevis Singer ◽  
American Jewish

Aesthetics/Ascetics

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Jeremy Stolow
Keyword(s):  
Popular Religion ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

This article focuses on the relationship of aesthetics and ascetics with regard to the publication and popular reception of Kosher By Design, a cookbook published by a major American Jewish Orthodox press, ArtScroll Publications. The article analyses the ideological, rhetorical, discursive, and iconographic modes of address embedded within this text, treating them as instances of popular religion, and also as elements of a project in and through which the Orthodox Jewish intellectuals associated with ArtScroll seek to assert new forms of religious authority, in the context of a broader culture of “kosher consumerism,” to which this text is directed. The article ends by highlighting the paradoxical character of this form of “post-scripture,” in which books like Kosher By Design, and by extension other ArtScroll texts—including their popular prayer-books—are caught between competing demands of popularity and authority, art and asceticism, and religious stringency and bourgeois living.

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex in the Age of Trump

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Lila Corwin Berman
Keyword(s):  
American Jewish
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