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Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

Mora, Miriam Eve

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Religion General General World HistoryMen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0814349625
ISBN13: 9780814349625
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: May 21 2024
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century.

For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity. Depicted as weak, effeminate, cowardly, gentle, bookish, or conflict-averse, Jewish men have been ascribed these qualities by outside forces, but some have also intentionally subscribed themselves to masculinities at odds with the American mainstream. Carrying a Big Schtick dissects notions of Jewish masculinity and its perception and practice in America in the twentieth century through the lenses of immigration and cultural history. Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.

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