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Movies and Midrash

Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation

By: Wendy I. Zierler

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Movies and Midrash

Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation

By: Wendy I. Zierler

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue. Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of inverted midrash: while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in Gods image), among others. This is a groundbreaking work of originality, insight, and high quality. It will be of great importance not only for Jewish readers but also for non-Jewish readers who long for a non-Christian perspective on popular film. I loved this book! Eric Michael Mazur, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Film

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And Rachel Stole the Idols

The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing

By: Wendy Zierler

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And Rachel Stole the Idols

The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing

By: Wendy Zierler

In recognition that there is no single feminist approach, nor a universally accepted definition of gender, this book incorporates a broad range of feminist reading strategies including Anglo-American gynoriticism, French feminist theory, and feminist critical methods in anthropology, biblical studies, and geography. The chapters examine the translated work of women who made early and significant contributions to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Hebrew literature, ranging from prose writers Sarah Feige Meinkin Foner, Hava Shapiro, Nechama Pukhachevsky, and Devorah Baron to poets Rachel Morpurgo, Rachel Bluwstein, Yokheved Bat-Miriam, Esther Raab, Anda Pinkerfeld-Amir, Shulamit Kalugai, and Leah Goldberg. Along with its scholarship and large number of original translations, And Rachel Stole the Idols makes a contribution to Jewish women's studies and Hebrew literary studies as the first book-length English language study of its kind."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Movies and Midrash

Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation

By: Wendy I. Zierler

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