Name: Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
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Author: Mora, Miriam Eve
ISBN: 9780814349632

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Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

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Physical Book

Author

Miriam Eve Mora

Publisher

Wayne State University Press

Language

English

Pages

404

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780814349632

Synopsis "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century"

Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century. For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity. Depicted as weak, effeminate, cowardly, gentle, bookish, or conflict-averse, Jewish men have been ascribed these qualities by outside forces, but some have also intentionally subscribed themselves to masculinities at odds with the American mainstream. Carrying a Big Schtick dissects notions of Jewish masculinity and its perception and practice in America in the twentieth century through the lenses of immigration and cultural history. Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.

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