THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH CULTURES The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures andwaysofinvestigatingthem,presentingthedifferentmethodologies,arguments,andchallenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: (cid:1) How the individual terms “Jewish” and “culture” are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, andFilm,Television,andNewMediaStudies. (cid:1) HowJewishculturesaretheorized,lookingatkeythemesregardingpower,textuality,religion/ secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. (cid:1) Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this handbook offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future. Laurence Roth is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Susquehanna University, USA. Nadia Valman is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. This page intentionally left blank THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH CULTURES Edited by Laurence Roth and Nadia Valman Firstpublished2015 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andpublishedbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2015LaurenceRothandNadiaValmanforselectionandeditorialmatter;individual contributionsthecontributors. TherightofLaurenceRothandNadiaValmantobeidentifiedastheauthoroftheeditorial material,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedinaccordancewith sections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilizedinanyform orbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,including photocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,without permissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregisteredtrademarks,and areusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData TheRoutledgeHandbooktoContemporaryJewishCultures/[editedby]NadiaValman, LaurenceRoth. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Jewishliterature--21stcentury--Historyandcriticism.2.Jews--Intellectuallife--21stcentury. 3.Jews--Civilization--21stcentury.I.Valman,Nadia,editor.II.Roth,Laurence,1960-editor. PN842.R682014 305.892’4--dc23 2013040193 ISBN:978-0-415-47378-1(hbk) ISBN:978-0-203-49747-0(ebk) TypesetinBembo byTaylor&FrancisBooks CONTENTS List of contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1 Laurence Roth and Nadia Valman PARTI Defining terms: disciplinary perspectives 15 1 Anthropology 17 Misha Klein 2 Music 35 Judah M. Cohen 3 Literary studies 47 Marc Caplan 4 Sociology 60 Ben Gidley 5 Religious studies 71 Andrea Lieber 6 History 83 Klaus Hödl v Contents 7 Art history 95 Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver 8 Film, television, and new media studies 108 Nathan Abrams PARTII Theorizing contemporary Jewish cultures 121 9 Power 123 Michael Rothberg 10 Textuality 139 Devorah Baum 11 Religion/secularity 151 Naomi Seidman 12 Memory 162 Nils Roemer 13 Bodies 172 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 14 Space and place 183 Barbara E. Mann 15 Networks 195 Laurence Roth PARTIII Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures 211 16 “Jewface” and “Jewfaçade” in Poland, Spain, and Birobidzhan 213 S. I. Salamensky 17 Television blackface: Jews, race and comedy in the UK and Australia 224 Jon Stratton 18 Mizrahi/Arab/Israeli/queer: the cultural politics of Dana International 236 Ted Swedenburg vi Contents 19 Turkish Jewish journalism and its audiences 246 Marcy Brink-Danan 20 The idea of Yiddish: re-globalizing North American Jewish culture 259 Amelia Glaser 21 Yiddish and multilingual urban space in Montreal 272 Sherry Simon 22 Pop, piety and modernity: the changing spaces of Orthodox culture 286 Abigail Wood 23 Seeing and being in contemporary Orthodox Jewish dress 297 Jonathan S. Marion 24 Life drawing: autobiography, comics, Jewish women 308 Sarah Lightman 25 Playing with history: Jewish subjectivity in contemporary lens-based art 320 Rachel Garfield 26 Scoreboard: sports and American Jewish identities 340 David J. Leonard 27 Theorizing “Jewish genetics”: DNA, culture and historical narrative 353 Yulia Egorova 28 Jewish spirituality and late capitalism 365 Ayala Fader Index 382 vii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS NathanAbramsisaProfessorofFilmStudiesatBangorUniversityofWales.HeisEditor-in-Chief ofJewishFilm&NewMedia:AnInternationalJournalandauthorofTheNewJewinFilm:Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (2012). Samantha BaskindisProfessorofArtHistoryatClevelandState University.Sheistheauthor or editor of several books, most recently Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America (2014)and JewishArt:A Modern History (2011, co-authoredwith Larry Silver). The JewishGraphic Novel: Critical Approaches, co-edited with Ranen Omer-Sherman, was published in 2008. She served aseditor forUSart for the26-volume revisededitionofthe Encyclopaedia Judaica (2006). Devorah Baum is a Lecturer in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Southampton.SheisalsoaffiliatedtoSouthamptonUniversity’sParkesInstituteforthestudyof Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations. Her research interests include the religious and the secular, the rhetoricalfunctionsofknowledge,psychoanalysis,Jewishliteratureandphilosophy,hermeneutics, critical theory (especially Jacques Derrida), and post-war American literature. Marcy Brink-Danan is a cultural anthropologist and author of Jewish Life in 21st Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance (2011). Her work has appeared in American Anthropologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Language and Communication, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Religion Compass, and Visual Anthropology Review. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Marc Caplan is a native of Louisiana and a graduate of Yale University. In 2003 he received hisPh.D.incomparativeliteraturefromNewYorkUniversity.Sincethenhehasheldpositions at Indiana University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University.HisbookcomparingYiddishliteraturewithAfricanliteratureinEnglishandFrench, How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms, was published by Stanford University Press in 2011. JudahM.CohenistheLouandSybilMervisProfessorofJewishCultureandAssociateProfessor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He has authored Through the Sands of viii List ofcontributors Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, USVI (2004), The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment (2009), and Sounding Jewish Culture: The Music of Central Synagogue (2011). He has also co-edited, with Gregory Barz, The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts (2011). Yulia Egorova is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University. Her research interests include Judaizing movements and the socio-cultural significance of genetic research. SheistheauthorofJewsandIndia:PerceptionsandImage(2006),aco-author(withTudorParfitt) ofGenetics, Mass Media and Identity(2006), anda co-author (with ShahidPerwez)of The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India (2013). Ayala Fader is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author oftheaward-winningethnography,MitzvahGirls:BringingUptheNextGenerationofHasidicJews in Brooklyn (2009). Currently, she is researching and writing her next book, Moral Panic in Brooklyn: Heretics, Skeptics and the Internet. RachelGarfieldisanartistwhoteachesattheUniversityofReading.Shehasexhibitedinthe UK, US, India, Italy, and Canary Islands. Recent published work includes “A Particular Inco- herence:SomeFilmsofVivienneDick,”inTreasaO’Brien,MaeveConnolly,RachelGarfield, BeverleyZalcock,andVivienneDick,eds.,BetweenTruthandFiction: TheFilmsofVivienne Dick (2009),and“QuestioningPerceptionsofJewishIdentityintheworkofAryStillman,”inJames Wechsler, ed., Ary Stillman: From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism (2008). Ben Gidley is a Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at Oxford University. He has researched both the sociology and history of Anglo-Jewry, as well as anti- Semitism and Islamophobia. He is the co-author, with Keith Kahn-Harris, of Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today (2010). AmeliaGlaserisanAssociateProfessorofRussianandComparativeLiteratureatthe University ofCalifornia—SanDiego.HerworkliesattheintersectionofSlavicandJewishliteraryhistory. SheistheauthorofJewsandUkrainians:FromtheShtetlFairtothePetersburgBookshop(2012),and the translator of Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005). Klaus Hödl is a historian at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. He has published widely on Central and Eastern European Jews, the Jewish body, and Jewish identity.HehastaughtatvariousuniversitiesinEuropeandattheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem. His most recent book is Kultur und Gedächtnis (2012). Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor of Performance Studies and Affiliat- ed Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her books include (with Mayer Kirshenblatt) They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (2007) and The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (2008). She cur- rently leads the exhibition development team for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Misha Klein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, where she is also affiliated with Judaic Studies, International and Area Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, her book, Kosher Feijoada and Other ix