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Further readings: Jews, media, and religion
Kesher, semiannual academic journal dealing with the Israeli and Jewish media worldwide. Published in Hebrew, with detailed
abstracts in English, by The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Center for the Media of the Jewish People at Tel Aviv University.
http://www.tau.ac.il/institutes/bronfman/kesher.html
Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review , special issue on Jews and the
Media,vol. 16, no. 1 (1994). Includes essays on film, television, radio, sound
recordings, computers and the Internet.
Hoberman, J., and Jeffrey Shandler, Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting.
Princeton: Princeton University Press / The Jewish Museum, New York, 2003.
Zurawik, David. The Jews of Prime Time. Boston: Brandeis University Press, 2003.
Shandler, Jeffrey and Elihu Katz, Broadcasting American Judaism, Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, edited by Jack Wertheimer. Volume 2: Beyond the Academy
http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/reading/bookexc/tradren/chap27.shtml
Mann, Vivian. Jewish Texts on the Visual Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000.
Bland, Kalman. The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Cohen, Richard I. Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Zelizer, Barbie, ed. Visual Culture and the Holocaust. New Brunswick, New Jersey:Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Schifrin, Dan. Conflicts and Challenges of Jewish Culture, National Foundation for Jewish Culture ( 11/4/04 )
http://www.jewishculture.org/about/about_nfjc_articles_conflicts
andchallenges.html
Sarna, Jonathan D. A Great Awakening: The Transformation that Shaped Twentieth-Century American Judaism and Its Implications for Today. CIJE Essay Series New York: Council for Initiatives in Jewish Education,1995.
http://www.rebooters.net/articles/awakeningEssay.pdf
Can the Jews Survive America?: A Conversation between Jack Wertheimer and David
Brooks. Center Conversations: An Occasional Publication of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center, no. 8 (November 2000).
http://www.eppc.org/docLib/20030508_CenterConversation8.pdf
Soloveitchik Haym. Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy. Tradition 28, no. 4 (1994): 64-130.
http://www.lookstein.org/links/orthodoxy.htm
Woocher, Jonathan S. Sacred Survival: the Civil Religion of American Jews. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Abrams, Elliot, and David G. Dalin, eds. Secularism, Spirituality, and the Future of American Jewry. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1999.
Is the future of Judaism in America promising or is there reason for great pessimism?
Papers presented at an Ethics and Public Policy Center conference on September
6, 1997 to explore this question, including essays by Charles S. Liebman, Jonathan
Woocher, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Clifford Librach, Dennis Prager, Robert M. Seltzer,
David Singer, Neil Gillman, Jack Wertheimer, Barry Shrage, Adam Mintz, and Peter
S. Knobel.
Free download:
http://www.eppc.org/docLib/20030423_secularandspirit.pdf
Mendes-Flohr. Paul. "Culture." In Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought. Edited by in Arthur A.Cohen and Paul Mendes Flohr (New York: Scribner, 1987), pp.119-130
Rosman, Moshe. "Innovative Tradition: Jewish Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth," pp.
519-572, in Cultures of the Jews: A New History, ed. by David Biale ( New York : Schocken, 2002).
Rosman, Moshe." Prolegomenon to the Study of Jewish Cultural History," JSIJ [Jewish
Studies, an InternetJournal (Bar-Ilan University)] 1 (2002):
109-127.
http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/1-2002/Rosman.pdf
Open Source Judaism
"An open source religion would work the same way as open source software development:
it is not kept secret or mysterious at all. Everyone contributes to the codes
we use to comprehend our place in the universe. We allow our religion to evolve
based on the active participation of its people. We internalize and engineer
Jewish laws and ideas as adults, rather than following them by rote, as children.
We come to realize that the writings and ideas of Judaism are not set in stone,
but invitations to inquire, challenge, and evolve. Together, as a community,
we define Judaism as the ongoing resolution of our individual sensibilities."
Douglas Rushkoff, in Nothing Sacred
http://www.opensourcejudaism.com/
Judaism, from The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press
A discerning guide to the religious media and media about religion.
http://www.therevealer.org/archives/links_000051.php
jBlog
Scholars, wonks, and rebbeles; mameles and makhers-in-their-own-minds;
such are the denizens of jBlog (as the Jewish blogosphere is called)Covers some of the main interests and most interesting corners of Jewish Blogland: Israel , pop culture, hasidism. There's more to come, so we'll refrain from summarizing any further.
http://www.therevealer.org/archives/links_000296.php
Nextbook: A gateway to Jewish literature, culture, and ideas
"Nextbook is a nonprofit organization that promotes books illuminating 3,000 years
of Jewish civilization throughout the United States. Nextbook's programs
include: partnerships with public libraries and other organizations to
create innovative public programs; a series of short books in which prominent
authors consider notable individuals, issues, or events in Jewish history;
and a website featuring a daily cultural news digest, original features,
and recommended books. Nextbook was established by Keren Keshet-The Rainbow
Foundation to be a gateway to Jewish literature, culture, and ideas for
Jews and non-Jews alike."
http://nextbook.org/
http://hdl.handle.net/1964/287
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