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Item Marjorie Agosín(Voices from the Gaps, 2002) Mabey, Lauren Barbara; Carr, Nicole B.; Reynoso, Rosanna Isabel; Moser, Laura Jane; Roberson, Kylynn Raynett; Curtright, LaurenItem Pedagogies, ideologies, and secular Jewish identities in U.S. Hebrew Schools(2014-12) Schneller, Renana SegalAlthough heritage language teachers' processes of identity formation have been studied in recent years (e.g., Milner, 2007), much of the work on heritage languages has explored foreign language teachers' beliefs (e.g., Nespor, 1987; Pajares, 1992; Williams & Burden, 1997) and pedagogies. Overall, the context behind these heritage language pedagogies, specifically ethnic, religious, and national identities has been under-researched. Addressing this gap, this study explores Hebrew language teachers' beliefs, practices and ideologies and the way these ideologies relate to teachers' Jewish identities. Hebrew language teachers have various beliefs about their roles as teachers and about what needs to be taught in their Hebrew classroom as part the process of fostering students' Jewish identity. These beliefs relate to teachers' lived experience as learners (e.g., Alvine, 2001). Teachers' beliefs and practices suggest teachers' Hebrew language ideologies (e.g., Woolard, 2010), which are affected by teachers' Jewish identity (e.g., Avni, 2011). During a year-long study that included a semester of classroom observation and numerous semi-formal as well as informal interviews, three participating teachers from two schools were observed and classroom documents were collected. Guided by the theoretical framework of imagined communities (Anderson, 2006), data was analyzed and interpreted. Findings suggest that Hebrew teacher beliefs about themselves as learners relate to their beliefs about themselves as teachers. These beliefs map onto classroom practices most of the time. All three of the teachers share similar ideologies about how knowledge of Hebrew and knowledge about Israel are essential for fostering Jewish identities.Item Stories of Memory / Memory in Stories: Remembrance and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Argentine Cultural Production(2015-12) Goldfine, DanielaThis dissertation examines contemporary cultural production (mainly literature, film, and visual arts) by self-identified Jewish Argentine artists. In my research, I seek to analyze the different and varied ways memory and identity are formed and reflected in works of art produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries within this community and how these contested categories differ in art produced in previous cultural production. I pay special interest to the events that marked Argentina during the last dictatorship (1976-1983) and how those events are depicted in the art of those who lived through it, utilizing either their own memory or second-generation postmemory. I also delve into the role of transmission from generation from generation and how multiple identities evolve and transform in the Jewish community as time goes by in Argentina. One more aspect I consider is the gender variable and how it is reflected in the aforementioned multi-layered identity, as well as how the role of transmission of memory is regarded. I contend that analyzing the ways identity and memory are utilized and reflected in contemporary art allow for a deeper revision of recent history and memory that, ultimately, demand an evocative compromise with the human sense of worth, as well as the human conciliation with what lies behind and ahead. Employing memory as an accepted fallible substance that connects past, present, and future, works as a demand of the conservation of certain sensibility without providing illusory neutrality and without abandoning the attempt to confront established interpretations and narratives.Item VG Interview: Fran Manushkin(Voices from the Gaps, 2001) O'Grady, KathleenItem A Visual Affair: Popular Culture and L'Affaire Dreyfus(2016-06) Trittipo, KathrynThis dissertation examines the popular culture and visual material connected to the Dreyfus Affair in nineteenth century France. The Dreyfus Affair was an important political and social event that took place in the 1890s in which Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, was wrongfully accused of treason and found guilty, despite a lack of evidence. In the aftermath of the verdict, French society split into opposing camps, largely based on social and political values. Newspapers and journals covered the Dreyfus Affair prolifically and a broad variety of materials were produced that related to the Affair, such as postcards, posters, novelties, and games. It is through these items that the public really engaged with the Affair, an aspect of it that has largely been overlooked. This dissertation posits that the material produced contained a variety of functions for the public, from didacticism to entertainment. An overview of common subjects and themes is discussed to provide a general framework before the more lengthy discussion of the materials possible functions. Also explored are the concepts of low-brow and high-brow material, especially as it connects to the figure of the collector.