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Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism

Author :  Imhoff, Sarah

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Country
United States
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN 9780253026217
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2017
Bib. Info 312 p,152 x 229 x 16.51mm
Categories History of religion,Judaism
Product Weight 422 gms.
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How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early 20th-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants or other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men.

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