Jewishness : expression, identity, and representation / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The red string : the cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol / Elly Teman -- A synagogue in Olyka : architecture and legends / Sergey R. Kravtsov -- Yiddish in the aftermath : speech community and cultural continuity in displaced persons camps / Miriam Isaacs -- 'National dignity' and 'spiritual reintegration' : the discovery and presentation of Jewish folk music in Germany / Jascha Nemtsov -- 'Take down mezuzahs, remove name-plates' : the emigration of objects from Germany to Palestine / Joachim Schlör -- Holocaust narratives and their impact : personal identification and communal roles / Hannah Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie S. Passow -- Ambivalence and identity in Russian Jewish cinema / Olga Gershenson -- The delicatessen as an icon of secular Jewishness / Ted Merwin -- Hasidism versus Zionism as remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the two World Wars / Ilana Rosen -- The sublimity of the Jewish type : Balzac's Belle juive as virgin Magdalene aux camélias / Judith Lewin -- As goyish as lime Jell-O? : Jack Benny and the American construction of Jewishness / Holly A. Pearse -- Jewish coding : cultural studies and Jewish American cinema / Mikel J. Koven.