DOROT OnSite@Home – Author Talk

When

May 23, 2022    
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Event Type

Author Talk: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion
Monday, May 23, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PMIn the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, American Jews have increasingly told nostalgic stories about Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. In her book Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, religious studies professor Rachel B. Gross examines American Jewish longing for the past expressed through artisanal delis, picture books, historic synagogues, and Jewish genealogy. She argues that these nostalgic activities should be understood as religious practices, illuminating how many American Jews are finding and making meaning within American Judaism today. We’ll learn with Dr. Gross as she shows us how the embrace of nostalgia provides evidence of an alternative, under-appreciated way of being Jewish and of maintaining Jewish continuity.

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