Digital Judaism : Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
- Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture Series .
- Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Studying Jewish Engagement with Digital Media and Culture -- 2 The Jewish Communication Tradition and Its Encounters with (the) New Media -- 3 Appropriation and Innovation: Facebook, Grassroots Jews and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism -- 4 Yoatzot Halacha: Ruling the Internet, One Question at a Time -- 5 Sanctifying the Internet: Aish HaTorah's Use of the Internet for Digital Outreach -- 6 Jewish Games for Learning: Renewing Heritage Traditions in the Digital Age -- 7 Communicating Identity through Religious Internet Memes on the "Tweeting Orthodoxies" Facebook Page -- 8 Legitimation of New Media and Community Building among Jewish Denominations in the US -- 9 On Pomegranates and Etrogs: Internet Filters as Practices of Media Ambivalence among National Religious Jews in Israel -- 10 Pashkevilim in Campaigns against New Media: What Can Pashkevilim Accomplish That Newspapers Cannot? -- 11 The Israeli Rabbi and the Internet -- Contributors -- Index.
Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negotiate with digital culture in particular ways, situating such observations within a wider discourse of how Jewish groups throughout history have utilized communication technologies to maintain their Jewish identities across time and space. Featuring recent scholarship by leading and emerging scholars of Judaism and media, Digital Judaism is an invaluable resource for researchers in new media, religion and digital culture.