Karen E H Skinazi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen E H Skinazi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen E H |
| FAMILY NAME | Skinazi |
| SIGNATURE | SKINAZI K E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7613-0264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Jewish and Muslim women: Literature and/as interfaith Work
In contemporary Britain, Muslims and Jews are polarised. A book group, however, serves as a fruitful intermediary. In this article, I examine the dynamics of a Jewish-Muslim women’s book group. Reading Jewish and Muslim women’s writing, participants centred their gendered subject positions within patriarchal religions and discussed complex issues, e.g., Israel/Palestine, through literature, making the group a site to explore topics uniting, and d…
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner
Simon J. Bronner’s Jewish Cultural Studies, which won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity, is the culmination of the author’s years of work in the field of Jewish cultural studies, a field in which he is a pioneer. Bronner is the author or editor of over forty books and more than one hundred journal articles. His new book offers a wide range of analyses of Jewish practice. To be clear, the work he presents here i…
Rejecting the Collective: Unorthodox and the Problem of Individualist Feminism
Although viewers might want to see a story about a self-liberated woman as a "feminist" tale, by privileging Esty Shapiro's individualist behavior above all else, the Netflix series Unorthodox (2020) paradoxically closes a door on a central tenet of feminism: collective activism. Because collectives are figured almost unwaveringly as negative, the heroine, and the series, imagine the "struggle for individuality," as writer and creator Anna Winger…
On Harris's Warriors, Witches, Whores
On Harris's Warriors, Witches, Whores Karen E. H. Skinazi Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema. By Rachel S. Harris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. 324 pp., ISBN 978-0814339671. US $35.99 The size of Rachel Harris's book on Israeli cinema might not compare to, say, David Biale et al.'s door-stopper book on Hasidism, but it aims to be as comprehensive and far more attentive to women. Harris tracks a panoply of Israeli f…
Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Are Head Coverings the New Black? Sheitels and the Religious-Secular Culture Wars in Twenty-first-century America and its Literature
In 1896, when Abraham Cahan’s collection of new Americans encouraged his greenhorn Gitl to remove her wig—which sits on her head as the metonymic symbol of religious ritual and thus Old World shame—readers of Yekl were offered an account of twentieth-century American progress, rendered necessary (if painful). Just as Yekl/Jake shaved his earlocks and beard, so Gitl must give up her Jewish wig and stand before the world in her ‘own hair’. But we m…
Miriam Michelson's Yellow Journalism and the Multi-Ethnic West
This article introduces turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish American writer Miriam Michelson to MELUS readers. Although Michelson has been overlooked by scholars of American literature, we argue that she is an important voice in multi-ethnic women’s writing of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century West. In the essay, we position Michelson alongside Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far), another long neglected woman writer. Like Eaton’s, the recov…
Through Roots and Routes: On the Road ’s Portrayal of an Outsider's Journey into the Meaning of America
Jack Kerouac believed that his French Canadian roots held the key to his knowledge, despite the fact that he became known as the “principal avatar” of a generation of American youth. In his bestselling autobiographical novel, On the Road, Kerouac splits his ethnic (French) and national (American) sides into two figures, Sal and Dean, to demonstrate the deficits and benefits of both parts of a hyphenated identity. Italian Sal sees himself as the e…
Canada's Jews: A People's Journey (review)
Reviewed by: Canada's Jews: A People's Journey Karen E. H. Skinazi Gerald Tulchinsky . Canada's Jews: A People's Journey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 630 pp. $45.00 sc. In an old review of the Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports (1955), Mordecai Richler pokes fun at the breadth of the encyclopedia, which purports to be "the first all-inclusive volume to tell the complete story of Jews in professional and amateur sports all over the wor…
As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed: Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity
Journal Article "As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed": Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity Get access Karen E. H. Skinazi Karen E. H. Skinazi University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 31–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.2.31 Published: 01 June 2007
Are Head Coverings the New Black? Sheitels and the Religious-Secular Culture Wars in Twenty-first-century America and its Literature
In 1896, when Abraham Cahan’s collection of new Americans encouraged his greenhorn Gitl to remove her wig—which sits on her head as the metonymic symbol of religious ritual and thus Old World shame—readers of Yekl were offered an account of twentieth-century American progress, rendered necessary (if painful). Just as Yekl/Jake shaved his earlocks and beard, so Gitl must give up her Jewish wig and stand before the world in her ‘own hair’. But we m…
Miriam Michelson's Yellow Journalism and the Multi-Ethnic West
This article introduces turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish American writer Miriam Michelson to MELUS readers. Although Michelson has been overlooked by scholars of American literature, we argue that she is an important voice in multi-ethnic women’s writing of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century West. In the essay, we position Michelson alongside Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far), another long neglected woman writer. Like Eaton’s, the recov…
As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed: Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity
Journal Article "As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed": Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity Get access Karen E. H. Skinazi Karen E. H. Skinazi University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 31–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.2.31 Published: 01 June 2007
As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed: Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity
Journal Article "As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed": Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity Get access Karen E. H. Skinazi Karen E. H. Skinazi University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 31–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.2.31 Published: 01 June 2007
Canada's Jews: A People's Journey (review)
Reviewed by: Canada's Jews: A People's Journey Karen E. H. Skinazi Gerald Tulchinsky . Canada's Jews: A People's Journey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 630 pp. $45.00 sc. In an old review of the Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports (1955), Mordecai Richler pokes fun at the breadth of the encyclopedia, which purports to be "the first all-inclusive volume to tell the complete story of Jews in professional and amateur sports all over the wor…
Through Roots and Routes: On the Road ’s Portrayal of an Outsider's Journey into the Meaning of America
Jack Kerouac believed that his French Canadian roots held the key to his knowledge, despite the fact that he became known as the “principal avatar” of a generation of American youth. In his bestselling autobiographical novel, On the Road, Kerouac splits his ethnic (French) and national (American) sides into two figures, Sal and Dean, to demonstrate the deficits and benefits of both parts of a hyphenated identity. Italian Sal sees himself as the e…
Miriam Michelson's Yellow Journalism and the Multi-Ethnic West
This article introduces turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish American writer Miriam Michelson to MELUS readers. Although Michelson has been overlooked by scholars of American literature, we argue that she is an important voice in multi-ethnic women’s writing of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century West. In the essay, we position Michelson alongside Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far), another long neglected woman writer. Like Eaton’s, the recov…
Are Head Coverings the New Black? Sheitels and the Religious-Secular Culture Wars in Twenty-first-century America and its Literature
In 1896, when Abraham Cahan’s collection of new Americans encouraged his greenhorn Gitl to remove her wig—which sits on her head as the metonymic symbol of religious ritual and thus Old World shame—readers of Yekl were offered an account of twentieth-century American progress, rendered necessary (if painful). Just as Yekl/Jake shaved his earlocks and beard, so Gitl must give up her Jewish wig and stand before the world in her ‘own hair’. But we m…
Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture
On Harris's Warriors, Witches, Whores
On Harris's Warriors, Witches, Whores Karen E. H. Skinazi Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema. By Rachel S. Harris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. 324 pp., ISBN 978-0814339671. US $35.99 The size of Rachel Harris's book on Israeli cinema might not compare to, say, David Biale et al.'s door-stopper book on Hasidism, but it aims to be as comprehensive and far more attentive to women. Harris tracks a panoply of Israeli f…
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner
Simon J. Bronner’s Jewish Cultural Studies, which won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity, is the culmination of the author’s years of work in the field of Jewish cultural studies, a field in which he is a pioneer. Bronner is the author or editor of over forty books and more than one hundred journal articles. His new book offers a wide range of analyses of Jewish practice. To be clear, the work he presents here i…
Rejecting the Collective: Unorthodox and the Problem of Individualist Feminism
Although viewers might want to see a story about a self-liberated woman as a "feminist" tale, by privileging Esty Shapiro's individualist behavior above all else, the Netflix series Unorthodox (2020) paradoxically closes a door on a central tenet of feminism: collective activism. Because collectives are figured almost unwaveringly as negative, the heroine, and the series, imagine the "struggle for individuality," as writer and creator Anna Winger…
Reading Jewish and Muslim women: Literature and/as interfaith Work
In contemporary Britain, Muslims and Jews are polarised. A book group, however, serves as a fruitful intermediary. In this article, I examine the dynamics of a Jewish-Muslim women’s book group. Reading Jewish and Muslim women’s writing, participants centred their gendered subject positions within patriarchal religions and discussed complex issues, e.g., Israel/Palestine, through literature, making the group a site to explore topics uniting, and d…
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