Dina Roginsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Roginsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Roginsky |
| SIGNATURE | ROGINSKY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Moving through Conflict
Relativism of Authenticity
Relying on historic and ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the development of the Israeli folk dance movement in Israel and the United States over the last century. Israeli folk dances are consumed worldwide and especially by American Jewry precisely because they are perceived as an authentic expression of national Israeli culture, even as their authenticity is continuously contested and re-evaluated in different historical and cultural …
Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization
This article analyzes the concepts of folklore and folklorism and their mutual relations through processes of synchronization. It contributes to the growing thinking about the manifestations of folklore and folklorism worldwide and adds the notion of a thirdhand process of folklorism. It reveals the empirical social conditions in which folklore and folklorism are negotiated in a dialectic process of cause and effect. The sixty-year period of folk…
Orientalism, the Body, and Cultural Politics in Israel
This article analyzes the unique position of Sara Levi Tanai (1910/1911–2005) in the artistic scene of the yishuv and the first decades of the State of Israel. Using a micro-level perspective—the biography of a woman artist—I evaluate macro developments in the history of Israeli culture, suggesting that the unusual biography of Levi Tanai, a Yemenite woman educated by European teachers, enabled her to create a "Mizrahi art" (as she called it) in …
Nationalism and ambivalence
Roginsky suggests a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between nationalism and its ‘ambivalent Others’, namely, ethnicity, gender and folklore. She proposes a cultural interpretation of these elements, considering them to be dialectically connected within a single macro socio-logical system. The theoretical background for this proposed framework derives from sociological and historical research concerning nationalism, nation…
Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization
This article analyzes the concepts of folklore and folklorism and their mutual relations through processes of synchronization. It contributes to the growing thinking about the manifestations of folklore and folklorism worldwide and adds the notion of a thirdhand process of folklorism. It reveals the empirical social conditions in which folklore and folklorism are negotiated in a dialectic process of cause and effect. The sixty-year period of folk…
Nationalism and ambivalence
Roginsky suggests a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between nationalism and its ‘ambivalent Others’, namely, ethnicity, gender and folklore. She proposes a cultural interpretation of these elements, considering them to be dialectically connected within a single macro socio-logical system. The theoretical background for this proposed framework derives from sociological and historical research concerning nationalism, nation…
Relativism of Authenticity
Relying on historic and ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the development of the Israeli folk dance movement in Israel and the United States over the last century. Israeli folk dances are consumed worldwide and especially by American Jewry precisely because they are perceived as an authentic expression of national Israeli culture, even as their authenticity is continuously contested and re-evaluated in different historical and cultural …
Orientalism, the Body, and Cultural Politics in Israel
This article analyzes the unique position of Sara Levi Tanai (1910/1911–2005) in the artistic scene of the yishuv and the first decades of the State of Israel. Using a micro-level perspective—the biography of a woman artist—I evaluate macro developments in the history of Israeli culture, suggesting that the unusual biography of Levi Tanai, a Yemenite woman educated by European teachers, enabled her to create a "Mizrahi art" (as she called it) in …
Nationalism and ambivalence
Roginsky suggests a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between nationalism and its ‘ambivalent Others’, namely, ethnicity, gender and folklore. She proposes a cultural interpretation of these elements, considering them to be dialectically connected within a single macro socio-logical system. The theoretical background for this proposed framework derives from sociological and historical research concerning nationalism, nation…
Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization
This article analyzes the concepts of folklore and folklorism and their mutual relations through processes of synchronization. It contributes to the growing thinking about the manifestations of folklore and folklorism worldwide and adds the notion of a thirdhand process of folklorism. It reveals the empirical social conditions in which folklore and folklorism are negotiated in a dialectic process of cause and effect. The sixty-year period of folk…
Relativism of Authenticity
Relying on historic and ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the development of the Israeli folk dance movement in Israel and the United States over the last century. Israeli folk dances are consumed worldwide and especially by American Jewry precisely because they are perceived as an authentic expression of national Israeli culture, even as their authenticity is continuously contested and re-evaluated in different historical and cultural …
Moving through Conflict
Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Folklore (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Dance (2 works)