RT Book
T1 Masculinity and the making of American Judaism
A1 Imhoff, Sarah
LA English
PP Bloomington Indianapolis
PB Indiana University Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/869609009
AB "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 twentieth-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 of other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men"--
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index
CN BM725
SN 9780253026064
SN 9780253026217
SN 0253026067
SN 0253026210
K1 Masculinity : Religuous aspects : Judaism
K1 Masculinity : United States
K1 Jewish men : Religious life : United States
K1 Masculinity : Religious aspects : Judaism
K1 Religion : History
K1 Religion : Judaism : History