Dr. Judith Thissen
judith.thissen@uni-erfurt.deAlumna (Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien)
Besucheranschrift
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Campus
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
Postanschrift
Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Project
Kol Nidre on Broadway, Jazz Singers in the Shul: Cinema and the Transformation of the High Holidays in New York City
My project explores how the engagement with the cinema and other forms of urban entertainment transformed religious practices among immigrant Jews in New York City. The central focus is on the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and the ways in which the upwardly mobile second generation experimented with innovative modes of mediated religiosity to reunite the increasingly dispersed immigrant community around familiar stories and sounds during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur.