Jonathan Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1361-797X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Bernard Berenson: A life in the picture trade (Jewish lives)
Bernard Berenson was, to put it mildly, a complicated man, and not the least of his complexities had to do with his Jewishness. All his many sides are treated with generosity in Rachel Cohen’s cont
The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was, despite his English origins and early career, an American master. Arriving on US shores in 1939, for the next three decades he created a series of masterpieces that redefined the nature and possibilities of cinema itself: Rebecca, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho, to name just a few. In this Companion, leading film scholars and critics of American culture and imagination trace Hitchcock's inte…
Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a h…
Reading the cinematograph: The cinema in british short fiction, 1896–1912
On Jewish Literature: A Polemical Position Paper
On Jewish Literature:A Polemical Position Paper Jonathan Freedman I come to the study of Jewish literature from an odd position—not an entirely unique one, to be sure, but one that has clearly (mis?-) shaped my own thinking on the subject. Setting aside my Grouchoesque (and Woody Allenish) desire not to be the member of any club that would have me as a member, my path was set by my parents' utter lack of anything having to do with Jews, Judaism, …
On Jewish Literature
I come to the study of Jewish literature from an odd position—not an entirely unique one, to be sure, but one that has clearly (mis?-) shaped my own thinking on the subject. Setting aside my Grouchoesque (and Woody Allenish) desire not to be the member of any club that would have me as a member, my path was set by my parents' utter lack of anything having to do with Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness. We might want to read this as a classic case of as…
Do American and Ethnic American Studies Have a Jewish Problem; or, When Is an Ethnic Not an Ethnic, and What Should We Do about It
Do American and Ethnic American Studies Have a Jewish Problem; or, When Is an Ethnic Not an Ethnic, and What Should We Do about It? Get access Jonathan Freedman Jonathan Freedman University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0019 Published: 01 June 2012
Graves and Images: Once Upon a Time in America and the Unmaking of Jewish Memory
The Lower East Side has long served as a “sacralized spot” of Jewish memory, in Hasia Diner's words. But in Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone—neither Jewish nor American—demystifies the images and performances that went into the sacralization of this space, and in so doing radically questions the politics of memory that gathered around it
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
Angels, Monsters, and Jews: From Kushner to Klezmer2. Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe,, and the Making of Ethnic Masculinity3. Antisemitism Without Jews: Left Behind in the American Heartland4. The Human Stain of Race: Roth, Sirk, and Shaw in Black, White, and Jewish5. Conversos, Marranos,, and Crypto-Latinos: Jewish-Hispanic Crossings and the Uses of Ethnicity6. Transgressions of a Model Minority7. Asians and Jews in Theory and PracticeConclusion:…
Jewish in America
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION | A two-volume special issue of the journal Michigan Quarterly Review, edited by Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman of the University of Michigan, brings together academic essays, high-level journalism, personal narratives, fiction, poetry and visual art responding to the transformations of experience in the United States during the last fifty years, and speculatively, extending into the twenty-first century. In the following …
Coming Out of the Jewish Closet With Marcel Proust
Research Article| October 01 2001 COMING OUT OF THE JEWISH CLOSET WITH MARCEL PROUST Jonathan Freedman Jonathan Freedman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 521–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-521 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan Freedman; COMING OUT OF THE JEWISH CLOSET WITH MARCEL PROUST. GLQ 1 October 2001; 7 (4): 521–55…
The Temple Of Culture: Assimilation And Anti-Semitism In Literary Anglo-America
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of “culture” have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter thi…
Introduction: The Moment of Henry James
Why, after a hundred years, Henry James? At a critical moment so leery of traditional notions of literary and cultural value, so impatient with gestures of authorial self-aggrandizement, so suspicious of the prerogatives of class privilege, few writers would seem less likely to survive than one thoroughly embedded in the highest of high literary culture, driven by desire for canonical status, fascinated by the intensities of the drawing room and …
Angels, Monsters, and Jews: Intersections of Queer and Jewish Identity in Kushner's Angels in America
The discursive ligature between the Jew and the sexually transgressive is crucially revised in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Kushner creates a powerful series of metonymies between the queer and the Jew that suggest their affinities but refuse to reify a unitary queer-Jewish identity. The center of this imaginative project is Kushner's Roy Cohn, who both illustrates and transforms the image of the queer Jewish power broker that circulated in …
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture
In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
Imagination and Desire in the Novels of Henry James
Social science and civil rights: The action/research debate continues
Coming Out of the Jewish Closet With Marcel Proust
Research Article| October 01 2001 COMING OUT OF THE JEWISH CLOSET WITH MARCEL PROUST Jonathan Freedman Jonathan Freedman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 521–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-521 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan Freedman; COMING OUT OF THE JEWISH CLOSET WITH MARCEL PROUST. GLQ 1 October 2001; 7 (4): 521–55…
Do American and Ethnic American Studies Have a Jewish Problem; or, When Is an Ethnic Not an Ethnic, and What Should We Do about It
Do American and Ethnic American Studies Have a Jewish Problem; or, When Is an Ethnic Not an Ethnic, and What Should We Do about It? Get access Jonathan Freedman Jonathan Freedman University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0019 Published: 01 June 2012
Social science and civil rights: The action/research debate continues
Imagination and Desire in the Novels of Henry James
In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture
Introduction: The Moment of Henry James
Why, after a hundred years, Henry James? At a critical moment so leery of traditional notions of literary and cultural value, so impatient with gestures of authorial self-aggrandizement, so suspicious of the prerogatives of class privilege, few writers would seem less likely to survive than one thoroughly embedded in the highest of high literary culture, driven by desire for canonical status, fascinated by the intensities of the drawing room and …
Angels, Monsters, and Jews: Intersections of Queer and Jewish Identity in Kushner's Angels in America
The discursive ligature between the Jew and the sexually transgressive is crucially revised in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Kushner creates a powerful series of metonymies between the queer and the Jew that suggest their affinities but refuse to reify a unitary queer-Jewish identity. The center of this imaginative project is Kushner's Roy Cohn, who both illustrates and transforms the image of the queer Jewish power broker that circulated in …
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
The Temple Of Culture: Assimilation And Anti-Semitism In Literary Anglo-America
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of “culture” have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter thi…
Coming Out of the Jewish Closet With Marcel Proust
Research Article| October 01 2001 COMING OUT OF THE JEWISH CLOSET WITH MARCEL PROUST Jonathan Freedman Jonathan Freedman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 521–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-521 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan Freedman; COMING OUT OF THE JEWISH CLOSET WITH MARCEL PROUST. GLQ 1 October 2001; 7 (4): 521–55…
Jewish in America
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION | A two-volume special issue of the journal Michigan Quarterly Review, edited by Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman of the University of Michigan, brings together academic essays, high-level journalism, personal narratives, fiction, poetry and visual art responding to the transformations of experience in the United States during the last fifty years, and speculatively, extending into the twenty-first century. In the following …
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
Angels, Monsters, and Jews: From Kushner to Klezmer2. Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe,, and the Making of Ethnic Masculinity3. Antisemitism Without Jews: Left Behind in the American Heartland4. The Human Stain of Race: Roth, Sirk, and Shaw in Black, White, and Jewish5. Conversos, Marranos,, and Crypto-Latinos: Jewish-Hispanic Crossings and the Uses of Ethnicity6. Transgressions of a Model Minority7. Asians and Jews in Theory and PracticeConclusion:…
Graves and Images: Once Upon a Time in America and the Unmaking of Jewish Memory
The Lower East Side has long served as a “sacralized spot” of Jewish memory, in Hasia Diner's words. But in Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone—neither Jewish nor American—demystifies the images and performances that went into the sacralization of this space, and in so doing radically questions the politics of memory that gathered around it
On Jewish Literature: A Polemical Position Paper
On Jewish Literature:A Polemical Position Paper Jonathan Freedman I come to the study of Jewish literature from an odd position—not an entirely unique one, to be sure, but one that has clearly (mis?-) shaped my own thinking on the subject. Setting aside my Grouchoesque (and Woody Allenish) desire not to be the member of any club that would have me as a member, my path was set by my parents' utter lack of anything having to do with Jews, Judaism, …
On Jewish Literature
I come to the study of Jewish literature from an odd position—not an entirely unique one, to be sure, but one that has clearly (mis?-) shaped my own thinking on the subject. Setting aside my Grouchoesque (and Woody Allenish) desire not to be the member of any club that would have me as a member, my path was set by my parents' utter lack of anything having to do with Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness. We might want to read this as a classic case of as…
Do American and Ethnic American Studies Have a Jewish Problem; or, When Is an Ethnic Not an Ethnic, and What Should We Do about It
Do American and Ethnic American Studies Have a Jewish Problem; or, When Is an Ethnic Not an Ethnic, and What Should We Do about It? Get access Jonathan Freedman Jonathan Freedman University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0019 Published: 01 June 2012
Reading the cinematograph: The cinema in british short fiction, 1896–1912
The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was, despite his English origins and early career, an American master. Arriving on US shores in 1939, for the next three decades he created a series of masterpieces that redefined the nature and possibilities of cinema itself: Rebecca, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho, to name just a few. In this Companion, leading film scholars and critics of American culture and imagination trace Hitchcock's inte…
Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a h…
Bernard Berenson: A life in the picture trade (Jewish lives)
Bernard Berenson was, to put it mildly, a complicated man, and not the least of his complexities had to do with his Jewishness. All his many sides are treated with generosity in Rachel Cohen’s cont
The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Art (16 works) · History (15 works) · Judaism (12 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · Art history (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)