Cosmopolitanism: the end of Jewishness?

Miller, Michael L.; Ury, Scott

doi:10.1080/13507486.2010.481923

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“…They identify 42 currently spoken languages, including English, with commonly found Jewish variants that disproportionately incorporate foreign words, phrases, and grammars. This consistent linguistic variety both coincides with traditional notions of Jewish cosmopolitanism (Miller and Ury, 2010) and, according to Harshav, is central to the association of Jews with contemporary intellectual life in the West. As he notes, Emile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Noam Chomsky, George Lakoff, Jacques Derrida, and numerous other leading Jewish intellectuals were “born on the boundaries of languages” and incorporated linguistic plurality into their thinking.…”

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Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms

Sienkiewicz

Wayne

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article considers how three competing subscription video on-demand services (SVODs) – Jewzy, ChaiFlicks, and IZZY – attract American Jewish subscribers via content selection, platform design, and marketing rhetoric. Although these three SVODs offer similar catalogs, they nonetheless foreground distinct elements of Jewish life, history, and practice. This process of commercial framing, the paper argues, creates unique brand identities for the three services that align with three different approaches to the construction of American Jewish identity. The article goes on to show that these SVODs offer an opportunity to revisit core assumptions embedded within Jewish screen studies and minority screen representation studies more broadly. Minority identity on screen is most often studied through the interpretation of key instances of minority representation. These SVODs instead emphasize the dynamics of interpellation, as they hail viewers by appealing to limited, pre-constructed concepts of cultural identity while offering entire platforms worth of representations.

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Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms

Sienkiewicz

Wayne

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The quest for higher education can be interpreted as related to cosmopolitanism by virtue of its diverse quality, namely fluidity, and also as related to Israelization, hence inclusiveness. By studying, exiters adhere to the universal value of education and knowledge, and also relate to a cosmopolitan tradition associated with certain manifestations of Jewish life (Miller and Ury 2010 ). At the same time, through higher studies exiters adhere to accepted Israeli norms: “My aim was to fall in line with the other Israelis.…”

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Disaffiliation from Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Communities: Life Trajectories Shaped by the Axes of Rigidity–Fluidity and Alterity–Inclusion

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Increasing numbers of young Israelis annually leave the enclave of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Relying on 16 in-depth interviews, we examine the effects of this disaffiliation on life trajectories and identity reconstruction of individuals who left their society of origin two decades ago. This unveiled a multistep longitudinal process, characterized by moving in and out of various structural stages, coupled with disaffiliates’ agency to highlight specific sociocultural characteristics or the more universal nature of the human condition. The life course of disaffiliates begins with a phase of early struggle with the immediate tolls of disaffiliation, followed by a formative period marked by two steps: military service and acquisition of higher education. Here disaffiliates practice adoption of increasingly inclusive identities, in which the past and present are enmeshed. The formative period is followed by three alternative trajectories: (a) adherence to restrictive Israeli conformity, (b) ongoing search for singularity, and (c) integration of ultra-Orthodox heritage with contemporary Israeli realities. The disaffiliation trajectory from the ultra-Orthodox society is embedded in particular sociocultural, political, and historical contexts. However, narratives of disaffiliates adhere to frameworks of cultural Jewish-Israeli particularism, as much as to those of human universalism, plugging in to certain universal themes of the human condition, namely rigidity, fluidity, alterity, and inclusion.

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“…Historians (Miller & Ury, 2010) try to define it as a modern concept with roots in ancient Greek culture. Miller and Ury, for example, define classical and modern cosmopolitanism as assuming the "tension between global and local, universal and particular" (Miller & Ury, 2010: 340).…”

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Is Cosmopolitanism a Feasible Paradigm for Understanding Modern Art? A Methodological Proposal

Maftei

2014

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Cosmopolitanism: the end of Jewishness?

Cited by 33 publications

References 31 publications

Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms

Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms

Disaffiliation from Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Communities: Life Trajectories Shaped by the Axes of Rigidity–Fluidity and Alterity–Inclusion

Is Cosmopolitanism a Feasible Paradigm for Understanding Modern Art? A Methodological Proposal

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