By Andrea Most
American Jews used the theatre and different media to navigate their encounters
with sleek tradition, politics, faith, and identity,
negotiating a place for themselves inside and along Protestant American
liberalism by means of reimagining key features of conventional Judaism as
theatrical. Discussing works as various because the Hebrew Bible, The
Jazz Singer, and Death of a Salesman—among many others—Most situates American
popular tradition within the a number of non secular traditions that proficient the
worldviews of its practitioners.
creation of yank leisure, Theatrical Liberalism re-examines the excellence among the secular and the non secular in either Jewish and American contexts, supplying a brand new approach of knowing Jewish liberalism and its position in a pluralist society. With large scholarship and compelling proof, Theatrical Liberalism exhibits how the Jewish worldview that permeates American tradition has reached a long way past the Jews who created it.
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