Dedication

pp v-v

Editor and Advisers

pp vi-vi

Preface

pp vii-x

Contents

pp xi-xii

Note on Transliteration

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: The Chutzpah of Jewish Cultural Studies 1

pp 1-26

PART I - EXPRESSION

pp 27-28

1 - The Red String: The Cultural History of a Jewish Folk Symbol

pp 29-57

2 - A Synagogue in Olyka: Architecture and Legends

pp 58-84

3 - Yiddish in the Aftermath: Speech Community and Cultural Continuity in Displaced Persons Camps

pp 85-104

4 - ‘National Dignity’ and ‘Spiritual Reintegration’: The Discovery and Presentation of Jewish Folk Music in Germany

pp 105-130

PART II - IDENTITY

pp 131-132

5 - ‘Take Down Mezuzahs, Remove Name-Plates’: The Emigration of Objects from Germany to Palestine

pp 133-150

6 - Holocaust Narratives and their Impact: Personal Identification and Communal Roles

pp 151-174

7 - Ambivalence and Identity in Russian Jewish Cinema

pp 175-194

8 - The Delicatessen as an Icon of Secular Jewishness

pp 195-210

PART III - REPRESENTATION

pp 211-212

9 - Hasidism versus Zionism as Remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the Two World Wars

pp 213-238

10 - The Sublimity of the Jewish Type: Balzac's Belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene aux Camélias

pp 239-271

11 - As Goyish as Lime Jell-O? Jack Benny and the American Construction of Jewishness

pp 272-290

12 - Jewish Coding: Cultural Studies and Jewish American Cinema

pp 291-310

Contributors

pp 311-316

Index

pp 317-320