Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history : authority, diaspora, tradition / / edited by Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish culture and contexts
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| Physical Description: | x, 431 p. :; ill. |
| Notes: | A collection of essays written by scholars invited to the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003-2004. |
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Table of Contents:
- Anthropology, history, and the remaking of Jewish studies / Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow
- "How do you know that I am a Jew?" : authority, cultural identity, and the shaping of postwar American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell
- Rabbis and their (in)famous magic : classical foundations, medieval and early modern reverberations / J. H. Chajes
- Dreamers in paradise : the rise and fall of a new holy site in Beit She'an, Israel / Yoram Bilu
- Words, images, and magic : the protection of the bride and bridegroom in Jewish marriage contracts / Shalom Sabar
- The dislocation of the temple vessels : mobile sanctity and rabbinic rhetorics of space / Ra'anan S. Boustan
- Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe
- Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz
- The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel
- Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. Baumgarten and Marina Rustow
- In the path of our fathers : on tradition and time from Jerusalem to Babylonia and beyond / Sylvie Anne Goldberg
- Prayer, literacy, and literary memory in the Jewish communities of medieval Europe / Ephraim Kanarfogel
- A temple in your kitchen : hafrashat @hallah-the rebirth of a forgotten ritual as a public ceremony / Tamar El-Or
- Judaism and the idea of ancient ritual theory / Michael D. Swartz
- Toward an integrative approach in Jewish studies : a view from anthropology / Harvey E. Goldberg.