Jeffrey Shandler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 529285 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeffrey Shandler |
| PRENOMES | Jeffrey |
| SOBRENOME | Shandler |
| ASSINATURA | SHANDLER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Digitizing Holocaust Memories
Digital media have enabled expansive opportunities to engage the Holocaust and its remembrance, especially by facilitating new forms of research. In particular, digitized audio or video recollections of survivors and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust attract a wide range of users. These resources, whether “born analog” materials that have been digitized or more recent materials that were created in digital mediums, pose particular challenges wi…
Yiddish
This book provides an introduction to Yiddish, the foundational vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, both as a subject of interest in its own right and for the distinctive issues that Yiddish raises for the study of languages generally, including language diaspora, language fusion, multilingualism, language ideologies, and postvernacularity. By approaching the study of Yiddish through the rubric of a biography, rather than following a more conventional …
The Savior and the Survivor
Two recent cases of new media practices, produced by Lubavitcher (Habad) Hasidim and the Shoah Foundation (University of Southern California), make provocative use of technologies to address the passing of revered figures: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe) and Holocaust survivors, respectively. In both instances, the deaths of these people are understood to pose daunting challenges to the continuity of their devotee…
Shtetl
In Yiddish, shtetl simply means "town." How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. In the post-Holocaust era, the shtet…
Enacting Ethnicity
Two recent productions of American dramas employed provocative strategies for enacting Jewish ethnicity: National Asian American Theatre Company’s performance of Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing! with an all-Asian American cast and New Yiddish Rep’s staging of Toyt fun a seylsman, a Yiddish translation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Each production entails a different approach to performing Jewishness that exemplifies these companies’ res…
New York's Yiddish Theater
New York's Yiddish theater holds a special fascination for many scholars of modern Jewish culture, American immigrant experience, drama, and performance studies. During its brief heyday, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, this art form burgeoned and then, almost as abruptly as it had begun, went into decline. At its height, Yiddish theater was a fixture of immigrant Jewish life and an object of fascination for others. It was…
Yiddish and Power, written by Katz, Dovid
Jews, God, and Videotape
An Ethnographer in Poland
Ghosts of Home
Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List
Shandler’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List; or, Reading a Digital Archive against the Grain.” Examining references to the 1993 film Schindler’s List in videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, the project’s “against-the-grain” reading demonstrates how mediation inheres in the processes of creating, archiving, and accessing thes…
Survivors on Schindler’s List
The Holocaust for Beginners
The Holocaust for Beginners: Yankev Glatshteyn’s Emil un Karl and Other Wartime Works for Young American Yiddish Readers Jeffrey Shandler Jeffrey Shandler Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 109–130, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0018 Published: 01 June 2012
Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture. Bloomington
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Serious” Talk
Starting with its opening scene, A Serious Man offers a complex, provocative engagement with the role of storytelling in Jewish life, past and present. Many viewers have wondered how the film's “shtetl” prologue relates to its main story, set in Minneapolis in 1967. They have often speculated that there is some plot-driven relationship that they somehow missed. But the connection, by the filmmakers' own assertion, is not diegetic; rather, it is t…
Jewish Culture
This article argues that the Holocaust not only has become a mainstay of Jewish culture but also has engendered an array of cultural practices across the spectrum of Jewish ideological and geographical diversity. At the same time, the subject has prompted debates over the nature — or even the possibility — of ‘proper’ Holocaust remembrance. Jewish culture is engaged in forging new, definitional narratives of Jewish experience that respond to the …
The Jewish Book and Beyond in Modern Times
How might one begin to think about the Jewish book in the modern era? The period is defined by unprecedented proliferation—not only of many new books, but also of an array of new kinds of books, as well as a plethora of new print and other communications technologies, new professions and institutions associated one way or another with books, and new text practices. This burgeoning volume of material, as well as the expansive range of possibilitie…
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
Santa, shmanta
Since the 1980s, American card stores have been selling an unusual kind of greeting card, which marks not the celebration of a holiday per se but the seasonal coincidence of two holidays of different religions: Christmas and Hanukkah. These cards not only formalize the phenomenon often referred to as the “December dilemma” but also engage with the challenges that it epitomizes for interfaith and interethnic relationships through the rubric of a “…
Adventures in Yiddishland
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the lan…
Anthologizing the Vernacular
The cultural value that Jews have long invested in translation and their attraction to what David Stem terms the “anthological habit” converge in anthologies of Yiddish literature in translation. While these collections bear traits in common with other anthologies in the Jewish library, they are distinguished by the association of Yiddish with vemacularity, especially with the particulars of Ashkenazic vernacular speech and culture as they took s…
Postvernacular Yiddish
Within less than a decade, almost half of the world's 11 million Yiddish speakers were murdered, and the language's centuries-old cultural heartland in Eastern Europe was demolished. The implications for Yiddish have been profound, both instrumentally and symbolically. There is at present a heightened awareness of the use of Yiddish as a language of conversation, both on the part of the speakers and on the part of observers. In “postvernacular Yi…
What Does It Mean to Be Photographed as a Jew
T H E J E W I S H QUA R T E R LY RE V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2004) 8–11 What Does It Mean to Be Photographed as a Jew? JEFFREY S HANDLER ON A FRIDAY in early August 1982, my classmates and I in the YIVO/ Columbia Summer Yiddish Program had just celebrated our siyemhazman , marking the conclusion of six weeks of intensive study of Yiddish language, literature, and culture. Before heading our separate ways, we gathered in front of the YIVO b…
‘The Time of Vishniac’
Remembering the Lower East Side
In the last three decades, ethnic and multicultural studies have challenged traditional concepts of collective identity. “Essentialist” notions of identity and their linear history have been replaced by new concepts of social construction, invention, and fluidity. In that context, the study of myths, traditions, heritage sites, and their attendant commemorative practices have become useful tools for understanding the persistence and malleability …
Beyond the Mother Tongue
Discussions of modern Yiddish culture often come to an abrupt end in 1939, 1945, or 1948, with any later phenomena characterized as vestigial. There are obvious and compelling reasons for the conceptualization of modern Yiddish culture as having, in essence, terminated in mid-century. Nevertheless, Yiddish has a significant presence in Jewish life after World War II, Stalin's liquidation of Soviet Yiddish culture, and the establishment of the Sta…
Remembering the Lower East Side
In the last three decades, ethnic and multicultural studies have challenged traditional concepts of collective identity. “Essentialist” notions of identity and their linear history have been replaced by new concepts of social construction, invention, and fluidity. In that context, the study of myths, traditions, heritage sites, and their attendant commemorative practices have become useful tools for understanding the persistence and malleability …
Santa, shmanta
Since the 1980s, American card stores have been selling an unusual kind of greeting card, which marks not the celebration of a holiday per se but the seasonal coincidence of two holidays of different religions: Christmas and Hanukkah. These cards not only formalize the phenomenon often referred to as the “December dilemma” but also engage with the challenges that it epitomizes for interfaith and interethnic relationships through the rubric of a “…
New York's Yiddish Theater
New York's Yiddish theater holds a special fascination for many scholars of modern Jewish culture, American immigrant experience, drama, and performance studies. During its brief heyday, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, this art form burgeoned and then, almost as abruptly as it had begun, went into decline. At its height, Yiddish theater was a fixture of immigrant Jewish life and an object of fascination for others. It was…
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
Heschel and Yiddish
"This Is Your Life"
The appearance of Hanna Bloch Kohner on a 1953 episode of the series This Is Your Life is among the earliest presentations of a Holocaust survivor's personal history on American television. Analysis of the program explores how television—a collaborative, corporate medium—shapes the telling of an individual's life story, and how the program relates the story of the Holocaust in terms of personal history. The article also examines how the program's…
While America Watches
The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been written about Holocaust film and literature, and yet the medium that brings the subject to most people--television--has been largeley neglected. Now Shandler provides the first account of how tel…
Heritage and Holocaust on Display
Book Review| January 01 1999 Heritage and Holocaust on Display: New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Museum of Jewish HeritageDavid AltshulerEsther BrumbergYitzchak Mais Jeffrey Shandler Jeffrey Shandler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1999) 21 (1): 73–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Remembering the Lower East Side
Revisits the Lower East Side as the most popular site of American Jewish memory
Beyond the Mother Tongue
Discussions of modern Yiddish culture often come to an abrupt end in 1939, 1945, or 1948, with any later phenomena characterized as vestigial. There are obvious and compelling reasons for the conceptualization of modern Yiddish culture as having, in essence, terminated in mid-century. Nevertheless, Yiddish has a significant presence in Jewish life after World War II, Stalin's liquidation of Soviet Yiddish culture, and the establishment of the Sta…
Remembering the Lower East Side
In the last three decades, ethnic and multicultural studies have challenged traditional concepts of collective identity. “Essentialist” notions of identity and their linear history have been replaced by new concepts of social construction, invention, and fluidity. In that context, the study of myths, traditions, heritage sites, and their attendant commemorative practices have become useful tools for understanding the persistence and malleability …
New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers
‘The Time of Vishniac’
Anthologizing the Vernacular
The cultural value that Jews have long invested in translation and their attraction to what David Stem terms the “anthological habit” converge in anthologies of Yiddish literature in translation. While these collections bear traits in common with other anthologies in the Jewish library, they are distinguished by the association of Yiddish with vemacularity, especially with the particulars of Ashkenazic vernacular speech and culture as they took s…
Postvernacular Yiddish
Within less than a decade, almost half of the world's 11 million Yiddish speakers were murdered, and the language's centuries-old cultural heartland in Eastern Europe was demolished. The implications for Yiddish have been profound, both instrumentally and symbolically. There is at present a heightened awareness of the use of Yiddish as a language of conversation, both on the part of the speakers and on the part of observers. In “postvernacular Yi…
What Does It Mean to Be Photographed as a Jew
T H E J E W I S H QUA R T E R LY RE V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2004) 8–11 What Does It Mean to Be Photographed as a Jew? JEFFREY S HANDLER ON A FRIDAY in early August 1982, my classmates and I in the YIVO/ Columbia Summer Yiddish Program had just celebrated our siyemhazman , marking the conclusion of six weeks of intensive study of Yiddish language, literature, and culture. Before heading our separate ways, we gathered in front of the YIVO b…
Adventures in Yiddishland
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the lan…
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
Santa, shmanta
Since the 1980s, American card stores have been selling an unusual kind of greeting card, which marks not the celebration of a holiday per se but the seasonal coincidence of two holidays of different religions: Christmas and Hanukkah. These cards not only formalize the phenomenon often referred to as the “December dilemma” but also engage with the challenges that it epitomizes for interfaith and interethnic relationships through the rubric of a “…
Jewish Culture
This article argues that the Holocaust not only has become a mainstay of Jewish culture but also has engendered an array of cultural practices across the spectrum of Jewish ideological and geographical diversity. At the same time, the subject has prompted debates over the nature — or even the possibility — of ‘proper’ Holocaust remembrance. Jewish culture is engaged in forging new, definitional narratives of Jewish experience that respond to the …
The Jewish Book and Beyond in Modern Times
How might one begin to think about the Jewish book in the modern era? The period is defined by unprecedented proliferation—not only of many new books, but also of an array of new kinds of books, as well as a plethora of new print and other communications technologies, new professions and institutions associated one way or another with books, and new text practices. This burgeoning volume of material, as well as the expansive range of possibilitie…
Serious” Talk
Starting with its opening scene, A Serious Man offers a complex, provocative engagement with the role of storytelling in Jewish life, past and present. Many viewers have wondered how the film's “shtetl” prologue relates to its main story, set in Minneapolis in 1967. They have often speculated that there is some plot-driven relationship that they somehow missed. But the connection, by the filmmakers' own assertion, is not diegetic; rather, it is t…
The Holocaust for Beginners
The Holocaust for Beginners: Yankev Glatshteyn’s Emil un Karl and Other Wartime Works for Young American Yiddish Readers Jeffrey Shandler Jeffrey Shandler Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 109–130, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0018 Published: 01 June 2012
Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture. Bloomington
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List
Shandler’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List; or, Reading a Digital Archive against the Grain.” Examining references to the 1993 film Schindler’s List in videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, the project’s “against-the-grain” reading demonstrates how mediation inheres in the processes of creating, archiving, and accessing thes…
Survivors on Schindler’s List
Ghosts of Home
Yiddish and Power, written by Katz, Dovid
Jews, God, and Videotape
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