The Jewish Press - A Gevalt from the Torah True

Sahra L. Lindeberg

• 26 mei 2015
• 9783631664513

Samenvatting:

The book is a study of a Jewish Orthodox newspaper from New York. Reading this paper over a 40-year period makes for a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. The Orthodox ideology of The Jewish Press is a result of hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about defining how to be Jewish in the modern world.



The Jewish Press’ purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper’s ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy must be understood as a dynamic concept continually changing as a result of historical developments and hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about telling the Jew in modern society how he is to understand himself and the surrounding world.