Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism

Sarah Imhoff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

310 Seiten

2017
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02621-7 (ISBN)

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How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early 20th-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants or other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men.

Sarah Imhoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. Her research focuses on religion and the body, including work on gender and American Judaism both historically and in the present, the role of DNA and genetic discourse in constructions of Jewishness, and the history of the field of religious studies.

Introduction
Part I: An American Religion
1. The Reasonableness of Judaism: An American Theology
2. Manly Missions: Jews, Christians, and American Religious Masculinity
Part II: The Healthy Body and the Land
3. Go West, Young Jew: The Galveston Movement, Immigrant Men, and the Pioneer Spirit
4. Israelite-Indian Identification: Claiming a Manly Past for American Judaism
5. Afternoon Calisthenics at Woodbine: Jewish Agriculture, Religious Ambivalence, and the Male Body
6. The Courageous Diaspora: Masculinity and the Development of American Zionism
Part III: The Abnormal and the Criminal
7. Soft Criminals: Theodore Bingham and the Gender of Jewish Crime
8. Leo Frank and Jewish Sexuality
9. Bad Jews: The Leopold and Loeb Hearing
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	422 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-253-02621-0 / 0253026210
ISBN-13	978-0-253-02621-7 / 9780253026217
Zustand	Neuware