Modern Jewish Mythologies
The ten essays in this volume seek to demonstrate the function and dynamic effect of myth in Jewish social, political, and psychological life. The essays are based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995. The eleven contributors examine such topics as the ancient myth of the Golem, myth and the function of collective memory, South African Jewry and its moral views on Apartheid, the male superhero in Zionist cinema, and separating myth from reality in remembering the Holocaust.
Edited by Glenda Abramson
2000 / 197 pp / 2 maps / ISBN 0-87820-216-1, cloth: $39.95
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