{"title":"Beyond Jewish Identity: Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives ed. by Jon A. Levisohn and Ari Y. Kelman (review)","authors":"Rebecca Shargel","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116240914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jewish American Relief Organizations in the Aftermath of WWII: Media, Commemoration, Memory, and Acknowledgment of the Holocaust","authors":"Liat Steir-Livny","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898137","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From 1945 to 1948, prominent Jewish relief organizations in the United States (Hadassah, the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal, and the United Jewish Appeal) launched worldwide Zionist media campaigns to support the rehabilitation and resettlement of Holocaust survivors. The campaign, which was based on short documentaries the organizations produced and newsletters they published, influenced attitudes towards the Holocaust and the survivors. This essay analyzes the representation of the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors in these films and newsletters. It discusses the narratives promoted by these organizations, the ways their media campaigns commemorated the Holocaust, and the identities they crafted for Holocaust survivors. It contributes to the ongoing debate as to whether American Jews marginalized the Holocaust until the 1960s. It shows that Jewish relief organizations produced films and published newsletters that dealt directly with the Holocaust and the survivors’ pleas in the three years immediately following World War II.","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134203329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Portrait with Parents and Footnotes: In and Out of a Postwar Jewish Childhood by Annette Aronowicz (review)","authors":"L. Lerner","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898150","url":null,"abstract":"261 January/July 2023, 16(1 & 2) side-effect of the book’s opting for depth over breadth and the selection of films it deals with? Meyers’ call for a pluralistic consideration of the work performed by films and critique of categorical dismissals of entire texts, filmmakers, genres, or modes can inspire future research, notably on recent films that were released after the book appears to have been completed, such as Shiva Baby (2020), An American Pickle (2020), and Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022). While we might not match Meyers’ smart insights, engaging style, or insatiable appetite for puns and portmanteaus with “Jew” (my favorite is “Jewciest” [54]), it would be wise to approach these and future Jewish representations with Movie-Made Jews’ usable tradition at our side. BOAZ HAGIN, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Arts, The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130316552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post-Holocaust Culture and Jewish Identity","authors":"P. Lassner, Victoria Aarons","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"107 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113940542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition by Helene Meyers (review)","authors":"B. Hagin","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122809409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Writing in Australia: Towards a Cultural History","authors":"Rebecca Margolis, David Slucki","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898147","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although Australia is home to a mid-sized Jewish community with a rich cultural life, the study of Australian Jewish literature lags far behind scholarship by historians and sociologists. In this paper, we begin to think about what might constitute a canon of Australian Jewish writing, focusing particularly on writing since the turn of the new century. We examine five texts by some of Australia’s most celebrated Jewish authors. In examining these works, we show the centrality of the Holocaust to Australian Jewish literature. This is not surprising, given that the Holocaust, as scholars have long established, serves as a kind of foundational narrative for the local Jewish community. The writers we examine—second- and third-generation authors whose works are consistent with many of the major features of second- and third-generation writing—clearly situate the Holocaust as the most defining experience in shaping what Australian Jewry has become.","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115564971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women Writers and the Postwar Remaking of Yiddish Paris","authors":"N. Underwood","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898146","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article focuses on three women writers who found themselves in Paris sometime between 1944 and 1960—Lili Berger, Rayzl Zshikhlinski, and Dora Teitelboim—to highlight the range of cultural expression that existed among women during the postwar years in France. Berger’s journalism and Zshikhlinski and Teitelboim’s literary output demonstrate how these different forms complemented one another and contributed more fully to the reconstitution of Jewish life in Europe.","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124267922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Revolt of Job: Salvaging the Lost World of Rural Hungarian Hasidim","authors":"L. Baron","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898145","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although the 1983 movie Jób lázadása (The Revolt of Job) garnered an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film, it has fallen into relative obscurity outside of its native Hungary. Reflecting co-director Imre Gyöngyössy’s sympathy for marginalized minorities, gratitude to a Jewish couple who sheltered him during World War II, and Catholic humanism, the movie salvages the memory of the Hasidim in rural Hungary by depicting their customs, referencing biblical stories, and employing imagery from the paintings of Imre Ámos. Sensing they are doomed in Hitler’s Europe, an elderly childless Hasidic couple adopt a Christian boy to assure they will have an heir to remember them and their Jewish heritage. They educate him by celebrating Jewish holidays and endowing mundane activities with spiritual meaning, introducing him to Christianity to protect him from persecution, and modeling cordial relations with their gentile neighbors. Their sudden deportation personifies the decimation of rural Hungarian Jewry and implicates Hungarian fascists and gendarmes in this egregious injustice. As the only feature film to portray how Hasidic Jews lived before the Holocaust, The Revolt of Job merits renewed scholarly attention.","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"300 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116788919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hyam Plutzik’s War","authors":"E. Sundquist","doi":"10.1353/jji.2023.a898144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2023.a898144","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although there has been little scholarship to date on Hyam Plutzik, he was an accomplished poet unique in his interests and his demonstration that postwar Jewish identity might embrace poetry and ideas reaching from biblical antiquity to contemporary cosmology. A veteran of World War II, he responded passionately and imaginatively to both Nazism and the continued Cold War threat of totalitarianism, range of reference tells us that he felt the Shoah, as well as the world war of which it was a part, and that they could only be understood within the full sweep of Jewish history and culture.","PeriodicalId":420478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Identities","volume":"121 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126320752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}