Modern Jewish Mythologies

Glenda Abramson has gathered a series of essays that explore the complex relationship between myth and ritual in modern Jewish culture. The eleven contributors examine such topics as the ancient myth of the Golem, myth and the function of collective memory, South African Jewry and their moral views on Apartheid, the male superhero in Zionist cinema, and separating myth from reality in remembering the Holocaust.

Together, the essays in Modern Jewish Mythologies capture the meaning of myth in modern Jewish society. This book is ideal for folklorists and scholars of cultural and Jewish studies.

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