AWG

This Is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity (Penn State University Press, 2023), coedited by Ariella Werden-Greenfield and Oren Kroll Zeldin, provides a scholarly analysis of the rock band Phish through a discussion of the Jewish component of the Phish community, while providing a deeper understanding of how spirituality, ritual, and identity functions within the Phish fan community more broadly. Bringing together scholars, journalists, and clergy, the chapters in this book argue that Phish shows are alternate sites of Jewish cultural production and religious connection. The volume argues that Phish shows are one of many avenues through which Jews find Jewish cultural and spiritual fulfillment outside the confines of traditional and institutional Jewish life. Phish fandom and the live Phish experience act as a microcosm through which we can see American Jewish religious and cultural life manifest in unique and disparate spaces.

This Is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity is available through Penn State University Press and all major booksellers.