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Question Answered step-by-step How do you summarize the main focus of this chapter? Describe… How do you summarize the main focus of this chapter?Describe author’s intention on relating culture and religionCritique of the points, arguments, and explanation of the essay· List points you found intriguing; or poorly reasoned—explain why.· Was the author successful?· Was the argument accurate or miss the target? (i.e., did it truly relate to culture?)Image transcription textCHAPTER NINE People of the Picture Book PJ Library and AmericanJewish Religion RACHEL B. GROSS We don’t need to tell you thatreading to your children is important…. But finding the ri… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text178 / Popular Culture in Religion Harold Grinspoon, the NorthAmerican iteration of PJ (for “pajama”) Library is aprogram of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. PJ Library… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople of the Picture Book / 179 have increasingly fundedorganizations that offer Jewish experiences, especially for Jewishyoung adults. Traditional American Jewish organ- izatio… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text180 / Popular Culture in Religion “Jewish identity is .. .eroded with relative ease in America, but it is also strengthenedwith well-defined, strategically timed interventions…. Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople of the Picture Book / 181 with new Jewish storybooks andbiographies, were intended to foster a culture of Jewish childhood thatcommunal leaders feared would not arise organically. In t… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text182 / Popular Culture in Religion environments. They also come frommany backgrounds-some are intermarried, some have little or noformal Jewish learning, some attend a synagogue and ce… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople of the Picture Boo/e / 183 program recognize that “There’s nocatch. There’s no reason not to do it.”12 Nonetheless, having noimmediately recognizable “catch” for recip— ients does … Show more… Show moreImage transcription text184 / Popular Culture in Religion First Book of Jewish Holidays,which introduces Jewish holidays with sim- plistic sketches such as,”On Yom Kippur we say we’re sorry,” comes … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople of the Picture Book / 185 support recipients who already areinterested in Jewish communal life. She focuses on connectingfamilies who are not involved in institu- tional Jewish life… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text186 / Popular Culture in Religion book, Nosh, Schlep, Schluff, and herillustrated books, Good Night, Lila Tov, about a family camping trip,and The Longest Night, a retelling of the exodus from Eg… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople of the Picture Book / 187 and “Abba” (Hebrew forfather), keeping the focus on Nate’s desire to dress as an alien for theholiday when all the boys in his Hebrew school class pla… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text188 / Popular Culture in Religion response, the Harold GrinspoonFoundation trustee Winnie Sandler Grinspoon defended theinstitution’s choice in a public letter, assuring parents tha… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople ofz’be Picture Boa/e / 189 the years has been to addcommentary to that. And then I say, “And we’re sending familiesbooks.” So that they can read those stories over and ove… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text190 / Popular Culture in Religion Simons and Lewis deal withtraditionally religious rituals, pointing to the religious goals of theorganization. PJ Library staff members’ reluctance to lab… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople oft/1e Picture Book / 191 In Aubrey Davis’s Bagel; from Benny,a retelling of a classic ]ewish folk— tale from Spain, young Bennydecides to thank God for the delicious bagels his grandfa… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text192 / Popular Culture in Religion 3. What does the existence of aproject like PJ Library tells us about the challenges faced by minorityreligions in America? What does it suggest about the ch… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textPeople of the Picture Book / 193 10. Tamar Snyder, “PJ LibraryNow Speaking Volumes in Publishing World,” Jewish Week (NewYork), February 15, 2011. I. Steven M. Cohen, Ron Miller, Ir… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text194 / Popular Culture in Religion 32. Forty-six percent of familiesreceiving PJ Library materials identify with one of the three majorNorth American Jewish movements, including II percent… Show more… Show more Arts & Humanities Religious Studies REL 221 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)
