Table of Contents

Abse, Dannie; Adler, Samuel; Agam, Ya'akov; Aguinis, Marcos; al-Asad, Muham; Alexander, Haim; al-Katib, Salim; Allen, Woody; Aloni, Nissim; Alter, Robert; American Political Culture; Amichai, Yehuda; Amir, Eli; Amram, David; Appelfeld, Aharon; Apple, Raymond; Ardon, Mordechai; art, modern Jewish; art, Russian-Jewish; Atlan, Liliane; Aub, Max; Auerbach, Frank; Australia, Jews in; Avidan, David; Avidom, Menahe; Avni, Aharon; Azancot, Leopoldo; Babel, Isaak; Baer, Werner; Balaban, Meir; Balkan Jewry; Ballas, Shimon; Bar-Moshe, Ishaq; Baron, Salo; Bartov, Hanokh; Basri, Mir; Bassani, Giorgio; Beer, Hayyim; Begley, Louis; Bejerano, Maya; Bellow, Saul; Ben Aych, Gil; Ben Ner, Yitzhak; Bergman, George; Bergman, Samuel Hugo; Bergner, Herz; Berkovits, Eliezer; Berlin, Isaiah; Bermant, Chaim; Bernstein. Leonard; Bettelheim, Bruno; Bezem, Naftali; Bilbul, Ya'qub; Binder, Abraham W.; Birnbaum, Solomon A.; Biton, Erez; Bloom, Harold; Bloom, Hyman; Blume, Peter; Blumenkrantz, B.; Bluwstein, Rachel; Bomberg, David; Bor, Joseph; Boukhoba, Choch; Brasch, Rudolph; Broadway musical; Broner, Esther; Brooks, Mel; Bruce, Adolphe; cabaret, Jews in; Calisher, Hortens; Cami, T.(charney); Canetti, Elias; cantorial song; Carmi, T.; Cassab, Judy; Cassirer, Ernst; Castel, Moshe; Chabon, Michael; Chagall, Marc; Charles, Gerda; Chocron, Isaac; Chouraqui, Andre; Christianity and Judaism; cinema industry; cinema industry, Britain; coffeehouse culture; Cohen, Leonard; comedy; Conservative Judaism; Copland, Aaron; Cowen, Zelman; Crown, Alan; culture, Arab-Jewish; culture, Lithuania; culture, Ukrainian; Daiches, David; Dan, Joseph; Darwish, Shalom; Daube, David; de Lange, N.; De Vahl, Davis; demography; Derrida, Jacques; Diamond, David; Doblin, Alfred; Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence; Domecq, Alcina; Doniach, Nakdimon S.; Doubrowsky, Serge; drama, Hebrew; Dreyfus, George; Dutch-Jewish literature; economics, Jews; Ehrenburg, Ilya; Elias, Brian; Elkin, Stanley; Elon, Amos; Encel, Solomon; Enlightenment; ethics; European cinema, Jews in; Ezekiel, Nissim; Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig; Faludy, Gyorgy; Faraj, Murad; Feierstein, Ricard; Feiffer, Jules; Feinstein, Elaine

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Glenda Abramson

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'Ambitious and useful. Recommended.' - Choice'A well-rounded, scholarly overview of Jewish culture from the 18th century to the present. It successfully offers a collective definition of modern Jewish culture, as well as a gateway to more comprehensive study.' - Against the Grain'The contributors have done an impressive job... Independent, unbiased, scholarly, yet reader-friendly, the [Encyclopedia's] approach is indeed much welcomed.' - Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK