- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early twentieth-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants of other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men"--
- Uniform Title
- Masculinity and the making of American Judaism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Masculinity and the making of American Judaism (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- LCCN
- 2016045536
- OCLC
- ssj0001785024
- Author
Imhoff, Sarah.
- Title
Masculinity and the making of American Judaism [electronic resource] / Sarah Imhoff.
- Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Print version: Imhoff, Sarah, author. Masculinity and the making of American Judaism Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2017] 9780253026064 (DLC) 2016043928