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The work examines boundary maintenance and community construction while challenging ethnic, cultural, and religious categories. It develops a two-part structure: conceptualization through framing, domestic dualities, media mediation, and folkloristics, followed by ritualization via Jewishness, Bar Mitzvah rethinking, naming ceremonies, and Holocaust memorial traditions.","PRAISE FOR JEWISH CULTURAL STUDIES  \n“Simon J. Bronner remains the most elegant and insightful commentator on the complex and convoluted world of Jewish (no matter how defined) cultural production. One of the creators of Jewish cultural studies, his work has always been a beacon for all scholars and readers who are trying to frame questions about the Jews and the modern world, no more so in this age ofCOVID-19, where the Jews seem to be simultaneously perpetual victims as well as perpetrators. An important book for all scholars of ‘out groups,’ including the Jews.”  \n—Sander L. Gilman, author of Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture  \n“In Jewish Cultural Studies, Simon Bronner caps a lifetime of research about Jewish life and lore with an original, provocative cultural perspective that changes the way people think about what Jews do, say, and feel. Breaking new ground for a fertile field of inquiry, it will surely inspire intellectual excitement and provide a basis for the ways that Jews are studied and understood.”  \n—Haya Bar-Itzhak, co-editor of The Power ofa Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives (Wayne State University Press, 2019)  \n“Based on immense scholarship, Jewish Cultural Studies problematizes the categories of ethnic, cultural, and religious, querying boundary maintenance, community construction, and the creation of distinctive Jewish culture and practice. With astute observation, Bronner probes the conceptual and literal, the rhetorical and ethnographic, and the historical and contemporary in this multifaceted exploration of Jewish culture.”  \n—Amy K. Milligan, author of Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices  \nJ E W I S HC U LT U R A LS T U D I E S  \nRaphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology  \nGeneral Editor  \nDan Ben-Amos  \nUniversity of Pennsylvania  \nJ E W I S HC U LT U R A LS T U D I E S  \nS I M O N J . B R O N N E R  \nWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS DETROIT  \n© 2021 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America.  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2020945635  \nISBN 978-0-8143-4828-4 (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-8143-3875-9 (paperback); ISBN 978-0-8143-3876-6 (ebook)  \nPublished with support from the fund for the Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology.  \nWayne State University Press Leonard N. Simons Building 4809 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201-1309  \nVisit us online [at wsupress.wayne.edu](at wsupress.wayne.edu)  \nFor Haya Bar-Itzhak of blessed memory (1946–2020), friend and colleague from Haifa to Harrisburg  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface and Acknowledgments xi  \nIntroduction: The Chutzpah of Jewish Cultural Studies 1  \nPART I: CONCEPTUALIZATION  \n1. Framing Jewish Culture 37  \n2. Dualities of House and Home in Jewish Culture 61  \n3. Media, Mediation, and Jewish Community 103  \n4. From Function to Frame: The Evolving Conceptualization  \nof Jewish Folkloristics 146  \nPART II: RITUALIZATION  \n5. Ritualizing Jewishness 171  \n6. Fathers and Sons: Rethinking the Bar Mitzvah as an  \nAmerican Rite of Passage 206  \n7. Jewish Naming Ceremonies for Girls: A Study in the  \nDiscourse of Tradition and Modernity 237  \n8. 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