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Jewish Literary Culture

James Young: The questions and discussions framing what’s in and what’s not in the Posen Library, a massive multi-volume anthology project: What is Jewish culture? Is Jewish culture a dialectic between “adaptation and resistance to surrounding non-Jewish cultures”? What is Jewish art or photography or architecture?
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Paul Buhle: For Jewish comic artists, comics were a means of expression that could be both under the supreme artistic control of the creator and available to ordinary Americans.
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Stephen Hazan Arnoff and Saul Kaiserman: If the first step in the current expansion of the Jewish cultural landscape has been to establish modes for producing and delivering the work of culture makers, the next step is expanding the nature of Jewish cultural production so that a much fuller range of the community is empowered to build a richer and more vibrant Jewish world.
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Michal Govrin: The Israeli writer and theater director shares her own artistic and cultural journey—including a dialogue of discovery, learning, rebellion and innovation.
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"At the heart of what Ahad Ha’am hoped to teach…were guidelines as to how Jews might thoroughly exist as Jews and also negotiate a larger cultural world."

Steven Zipperstein, “Ahad Ha’am on the Cooking of Culture."


Sh’ma and the JCC of San Francisco Present a Public Forum focusing A Jewish Lens on Immigration Policy
March 26 8:00 pm
For more information, contact Rabbi Yoel Kahn, 415-292-1272
Free and open to the public.
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