Short description:

This two-volume encyclopedia contains biographical and topic entries ranging from 200 to 1,000 words each, written by experts from all over the world. In addition, there are also 5,000-word essays which provide overviews to aspects of culture in the Jewish world.

Long description:

The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture  is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout.

Experts from all over the world contribute entries ranging from 200 to 1000 words broadly, covering the humanities, arts, social sciences, sport and popular culture, and 5000-word essays contextualize the shorter entries, and provide overviews to aspects of culture in the Jewish world.

Ideal for student and general readers, the articles and biographies have been written by scholars and academics, musicians, artists and writers, and the book now contains up-to-date bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, comprehensive cross referencing, and a full index.

This is a resource, no student of Jewish history will want to go without.

'Ambitious and useful. Recommended.' - Choice

'A well-rounded, scholarly overview of Jewish culture from the 18th century to the present. It successfully offers a collective definition of modern Jewish culture, as well as a gateway to more comprehensive study.' - Against the Grain

'The contributors have done an impressive job... Independent, unbiased, scholarly, yet reader-friendly, the [Encyclopedia's] approach is indeed much welcomed.' - Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK

Table of Contents:

Abse, Dannie; Adler, Samuel; Agam, Ya'akov; Aguinis, Marcos; al-Asad, Muham; Alexander, Haim; al-Katib, Salim; Allen, Woody; Aloni, Nissim; Alter, Robert; American Political Culture; Amichai, Yehuda; Amir, Eli; Amram, David; Appelfeld, Aharon; Apple, Raymond; Ardon, Mordechai; art, modern Jewish; art, Russian-Jewish; Atlan, Liliane; Aub, Max; Auerbach, Frank; Australia, Jews in; Avidan, David; Avidom, Menahe; Avni, Aharon; Azancot, Leopoldo; Babel, Isaak; Baer, Werner; Balaban, Meir; Balkan Jewry; Ballas, Shimon; Bar-Moshe, Ishaq; Baron, Salo; Bartov, Hanokh; Basri, Mir; Bassani, Giorgio; Beer, Hayyim; Begley, Louis; Bejerano, Maya; Bellow, Saul; Ben Aych, Gil; Ben Ner, Yitzhak; Bergman, George; Bergman, Samuel Hugo; Bergner, Herz; Berkovits, Eliezer; Berlin, Isaiah; Bermant, Chaim; Bernstein. Leonard; Bettelheim, Bruno; Bezem, Naftali; Bilbul, Ya'qub; Binder, Abraham W.; Birnbaum, Solomon A.; Biton, Erez; Bloom, Harold; Bloom, Hyman; Blume, Peter; Blumenkrantz, B.; Bluwstein, Rachel; Bomberg, David; Bor, Joseph; Boukhoba, Choch; Brasch, Rudolph; Broadway musical; Broner, Esther; Brooks, Mel; Bruce, Adolphe; cabaret, Jews in; Calisher, Hortens; Cami, T.(charney); Canetti, Elias; cantorial song; Carmi, T.; Cassab, Judy; Cassirer, Ernst; Castel, Moshe; Chabon, Michael; Chagall, Marc; Charles, Gerda; Chocron, Isaac; Chouraqui, Andre; Christianity and Judaism; cinema industry; cinema industry, Britain; coffeehouse culture; Cohen, Leonard; comedy; Conservative Judaism; Copland, Aaron; Cowen, Zelman; Crown, Alan; culture, Arab-Jewish; culture, Lithuania; culture, Ukrainian; Daiches, David; Dan, Joseph; Darwish, Shalom; Daube, David; de Lange, N.; De Vahl, Davis; demography; Derrida, Jacques; Diamond, David; Doblin, Alfred; Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence; Domecq, Alcina; Doniach, Nakdimon S.; Doubrowsky, Serge; drama, Hebrew; Dreyfus, George; Dutch-Jewish literature; economics, Jews; Ehrenburg, Ilya; Elias, Brian; Elkin, Stanley; Elon, Amos; Encel, Solomon; Enlightenment; ethics; European cinema, Jews in; Ezekiel, Nissim; Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig; Faludy, Gyorgy; Faraj, Murad; Feierstein, Ricard; Feiffer, Jules; Feinstein, Elaine