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The Fractured Jew
An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology via Identities in Popular Culture
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Historically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TVâs Mrs. Maisel is ostensibly a Jew, the actor playing her is not, and Mrs. Maiselâs actions are not always Jewish. In The Fractured Jew Joel West separates Judaism into phenomenological and performative, starting with popular portrayals of Jews and Judaism, in todayâs media, as a jumping-off point to understand Judaism and Jewishness, not from the outside, but from the emic, internal, Jewish point of view.
Joel West is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, studying the philosophy of cognitive science and the science of mind. His academic work is eclectic and ubiquitous, having published papers covering such topics as Bernie Madoffâs Ponzi scheme, understanding gender in Isaac Bashevis Singerâs short story Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, and The Sign of the Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime as a Sign (Brill, 2020).
Preface and Acknowledgements
âWhat This Book Is Not
Abstract
Keywords
âIntroduction
â1âWho or What Is a Jew?
â2âA Fractured Framework: Trauma, Identity, Ethnicity
â3âDiachronic Denominationally Jewish
â4âNorth American Semiotics: Jew, Jewish or Judaism as a Sign
â5âNorth American Jews: Alienations
â6âNorth American Jews: Denominations as History
â7âPreforming Jew, Jewish, Judaism
â8âThe Jew Is a JokeâInternalized Antisemitism
âConclusion
âReferences
âIndex
âWhat This Book Is Not
Abstract
Keywords
âIntroduction
â1âWho or What Is a Jew?
â2âA Fractured Framework: Trauma, Identity, Ethnicity
â3âDiachronic Denominationally Jewish
â4âNorth American Semiotics: Jew, Jewish or Judaism as a Sign
â5âNorth American Jews: Alienations
â6âNorth American Jews: Denominations as History
â7âPreforming Jew, Jewish, Judaism
â8âThe Jew Is a JokeâInternalized Antisemitism
âConclusion
âReferences
âIndex
Readership includes lay readers interested in Judaism and Jewish culture, the differences between Jewish Culture and Religion, those who are interested in Jewish theology, popular culture, anthropological studies in Judaism, anthropological studies in popular culture, those interested in television, those interested in antisemitism studies.