Curtain Call
Curtain Call
This chapter argues that theatrical liberalism remains alive and well in America and that Jewish artists, writers, directors, and performers have given new life to popular culture forms by filling them with explicitly Judaic religious content. Many of these recent works mirror the approach of Angels in America, using mysticism or other aspects of Jewish thought and practice as symbols of authenticity. Others, however, have begun to gesture at the potential inherent in a fully self-conscious acknowledgement of the place of religion in secular culture. It further argues that theatrical liberalism offers not a single definition of a Jewish liberal self but rather the debate itself as the fundamental fact of Jewish liberalism.
Keywords: theatrical liberalism, popular culture, religious culture, secular culture, Judaism, Jewish liberalism
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