Jewish-American identity and critical intercultural communication : never forget, tikkun olam, and kindness to strangers / Miriam Shoshana Sobre.

"The book explores Jewish US American identity beyond the white and educated "model minority" stereotype. Jewish life and Judaism are explored across personal, socio-cultural, and political-global implications, arguing for more inclusive approaches to relationships among race, ethnicity, culture, an...

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Main Author: Sobre, Miriam Shoshana, 1976- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Subjects:
Jews > United States > Identity.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Identity politics > United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Jewish diaspora.
Ethnic relations.
Identity politics.
Jews > Cultural assimilation.
Jews > Identity.
United States.
Physical Description:x, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Never forget, tikkun olam, and kindness to strangers
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Section I: Jews and Jewish Life in US America
  • Definitions, History and Demographics of Jewish Americans
  • Rootless Cosmopolitans Find Roots: Socioeconomics, Education and Social Justice of Jewish Life in US America
  • Antisemitism, Zionism, Israel, and Acceptance: Jews in the US American 20th Century Through Today
  • Section II: Theoretical Framework for the Study
  • Critical Intercultural Communication and Jewish American Life
  • A Framework for Analysis and Critique
  • Never Forget, Scattered People and Israel: Jews within a Postcolonial Context
  • Section III: US American Jewish Voices and the Stories of Jewish American Identity
  • Laying the Groundwork for the Study
  • A Mosaic of Jewish Identity
  • Ashkenormativity and Critical Intercultural Communication
  • Strange Bedfellows: US American Jews and Israel
  • Never Forget and Never Again