Generations Of Jewish Directors And The Struggle For America S Soul

Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030760311

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Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America’s Soul by Sam B. Girgus Pdf

From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors—William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by insisting that America must live up to its values and ideals. These directors accentuate the ethical responsibility for the other as a basis of the American soul and a source for strengthening American liberal democracy. In the manner of the jeremiad, their films challenge America to achieve a liberal democratic culture for all people by becoming more inclusive and by modernizing the American Idea. Following an introduction that relates aspects of modern ethical thought to the search for America’s soul, the book divides into three sections. The Wyler section focuses on the director’s social vision of a changing America. The Lumet section views his films as dramatizing Lumet’s dynamic and aggressive social and ethical conscience. The Spielberg section tracks his films as a movement toward American redemption and renewal that aspires to realize Lincoln’s vision of America as the hope of the world. The directors, among many others, perpetuate a “New Covenant” that advocates change and renewal in the American experience.

Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030760324

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Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America's Soul by Sam B. Girgus Pdf

From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors-William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by insisting that America must live up to its values and ideals. These directors accentuate the ethical responsibility for the other as a basis of the American soul and a source for strengthening American liberal democracy. In the manner of the jeremiad, their films challenge America to achieve a liberal democratic culture for all people by becoming more inclusive and by modernizing the American Idea. Following an introduction that relates aspects of modern ethical thought to the search for America's soul, the book divides into three sections. The Wyler section focuses on the director's social vision of a changing America. The Lumet section views his films as dramatizing Lumet's dynamic and aggressive social and ethical conscience. The Spielberg section tracks his films as a movement toward American redemption and renewal that aspires to realize Lincoln's vision of America as the hope of the world. The directors, among many others, perpetuate a "New Covenant" that advocates change and renewal in the American experience. .

Author : Richard Kearney,Murray Littlejohn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350113473

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Thinking Film by Richard Kearney,Murray Littlejohn Pdf

Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy? Following Cavell's lead to think along the tear of the analytic-continental traditions, this book draws from both sides of the philosophical divide to reflect on this question. Spanning generations and disciplines, pondering everything from art house classics to mainstream blockbusters, Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies aims to fling open the doors to this conversation on all sides. Inquiring into both philosophy's word on film and film's word to philosophy, the interdisciplinary dialogue of this book traverses the conceptual and the particular as it considers how film catalyzes our thinking and sets us talking. After viewing the world through film, we find our world--and ourselves--transformed by deeper understanding and new possibilities. This book aims to provide a novel and engaging way in to thinking with and about this enduringly popular art form.

Author : Andrew R. Heinze
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691127750

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Jews and the American Soul by Andrew R. Heinze Pdf

What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common? They belong to a group of pivotal and highly influential Jewish thinkers who altered the face of modern America in ways few people recognize. So argues Andrew Heinze, who reveals in rich and unprecedented detail the extent to which Jewish values, often in tense interaction with an established Christian consensus, shaped the country's psychological and spiritual vocabulary. Jews and the American Soul is the first book to recognize the central role Jews and Jewish values have played in shaping American ideas of the inner life. It overturns the widely shared assumption that modern ideas of human nature derived simply from the nation's Protestant heritage. Heinze marshals a rich array of evidence to show how individuals ranging from Erich Fromm to Ann Landers changed the way Americans think about mind and soul. The book shows us the many ways that Jewish thinkers influenced everything from the human potential movement and pop psychology to secular spirituality. It also provides fascinating new interpretations of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Western views of the psyche; the clash among Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish moral sensibilities in America; the origins and evolution of America's psychological and therapeutic culture; the role of Jewish women as American public moralists, and more. A must-read for anyone interested in the contribution of Jews and Jewish culture to modern America.

Author : Bruce D. Haynes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479811236

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The Soul of Judaism by Bruce D. Haynes Pdf

Explores the full diversity of Black Jews, including bi-racial Jews of both matrilineal and patrilineal descent; adoptees; black converts to Judaism; and Black Hebrews and Israelites, who trace their Jewish roots to Africa and challenge the dominant western paradigm of Jews as white and of European descent. The book showcases the lives of Black Jews, demonstrating that racial ascription has been shaping Jewish selfhood for centuries. It reassesses the boundaries between race and ethnicity, offering insight into how ethnicity can be understood only in relation to racialization and the one-drop rule. Within this context, Black Jewish individuals strive to assert their dual identities and find acceptance within their communities. Putting to rest the notion that Jews are white and the Black Jews are therefore a contradiction, the volume argues that we cannot pigeonhole Black Hebrews and Israelites as exotic, militant, and nationalistic sects outside the boundaries of mainstream Jewish thought and community life. it spurs us to consider the significance of the growing population of self-identified Black Jews and its implications for the future of American Jewry.

Author : Samuel G. Freedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780684859453

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Jew Vs. Jew by Samuel G. Freedman Pdf

At a time when Jews in the United States appear more secure and successful than ever, Freedman maintains that cultural and religious differences are tearing apart their community.

Author : Daniel Bernardi,Michael Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313398407

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Race in American Film [3 volumes] by Daniel Bernardi,Michael Green Pdf

This expansive three-volume set investigates racial representation in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most racially significant films, actors, directors, and movements in American cinematic history. Hollywood has always reflected current American cultural norms and ideas. As such, film provides a window into attitudes about race and ethnicity over the last century. This comprehensive set provides information on hundreds of films chosen based on scholarly consensus of their importance regarding the subject, examining aspects of race and ethnicity in American film through the historical context, themes, and people involved. This three-volume set highlights the most important films and artists of the era, identifying films, actors, or characterizations that were considered racist, were tremendously popular or hugely influential, attempted to be progressive, or some combination thereof. Readers will not only learn basic information about each subject but also be able to contextualize it culturally, historically, and in terms of its reception to understand what average moviegoers thought about the subject at the time of its popularity—and grasp how the subject is perceived now through the lens of history.

Author : Emanuel Frieder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : UOM:39015022058468

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To Deliver Their Souls by Emanuel Frieder Pdf

"The story of Slovak Jewry, a Jewish community of long standing, occupies a special place in the history of the Holocaust. Slovakia had both a very Orthodox Jewish community, comprising several generations of disciples of the Hatam Sofer of Bratislava (Pressburg), and a Zionist community, comprised of secular and religious Jews. The Zionist community included people aspiring to live by Jewish tradition and halakhah while interpreting Judaism in a way more compatible with the intellectual climate of the first half of our century."--Book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133487186

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Sh'ma by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sidney Schwarz
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1683360567

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Finding a Spiritual Home by Sidney Schwarz Pdf

Offers a penetrating analysis of the American Jewish community, challenging synagogues to respond to a generation of seekers and to satisfy the spiritual hunger of the "new American Jew."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Jews
ISBN : OSU:32435057876534

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The American Hebrew by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Ben-Ami
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230338178

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A New Voice for Israel by Jeremy Ben-Ami Pdf

Many Americans who care about Israel's future are questioning whether the hard-line, uncritical stances adopted by many traditional pro-Israel advocates really serve the country's best interests over the long-term. Moderate Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of J Street, the new pro-Israel, pro-peace political movement, punctures many of the myths that have long guided our understanding of the politics of the American Jewish community and have been fundamental to how pro-Israel advocates have pursued their work. These myths include: - that leaders of established Jewish organizations speak for all Jewish Americans when it comes to Israel - that being pro-Israel means you cannot support creation of a Palestinian state - that American Jews vote for candidates based largely on their support of Israel - that talking peace with your enemies demonstrates weakness - that allying with neoconservatives and evangelical Christians is good for Israel and good for the Jewish community. Ben-Ami, whose grandparents were first-generation Zionists and founders of Tel Aviv, tells the story of his own evolution toward a more moderate viewpoint. He sketches a new direction for both American policy and the conduct of the debate over Israel in the American Jewish community.

Author : Mark Oppenheimer
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525657194

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Squirrel Hill by Mark Oppenheimer Pdf

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one. Mark Oppenheimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and instead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, teenagers and seniors, activists and historians. Together, these stories provide a kaleidoscopic and nuanced account of collective grief, love, support, and revival. But Oppenheimer also details the difficult dialogue and messy confrontations that Squirrel Hill had to face in the process of healing, and that are a necessary part of true growth and understanding in any community. He has reverently captured the vibrancy and caring that still characterize Squirrel Hill, and it is this phenomenal resilience that can provide inspiration to any place burdened with discrimination and hate.

Author : Yoram Hazony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786747238

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The Jewish State by Yoram Hazony Pdf

In what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays the cultural and political revolt against Israel's status as the Jewish state. Examining ideological trends in academia, literature, media, law, the armed forces, and the foreign policy establishment, Hazony contends that Israelis are preparing themselves for the final break with the Jewish past and the Jewish future. In a dramatic new reading of Israeli history, Hazony uncovers the story of how Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and other German-Jewish intellectuals bitterly fought against the establishment of Israel, and later used the Hebrew University as a base for deposing David Ben-Gurion and discrediting Labor Zionism. The Jewish State is a must-read for anyone concerned with Israel's present and future.

Author : Shea Hecht,Chaim Clorfene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110110843

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Confessions of a Jewish Cultbuster by Shea Hecht,Chaim Clorfene Pdf