Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History : : Authority, Diaspora, Tradition /

Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History : : Authority, Diaspora, Tradition / / ed. by Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, Marina Rustow.

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Over the past several decades, the field of Jewish studies has expanded to encompass an unprecedented range of research topics, historical periods, geographic regions, and analytical approaches. Yet there have been few systematic efforts to trace these developments, to consider their implications, a...

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MitwirkendeR:
Baumgarten, Albert I.,
Bilu, Yoram,
Boustan, Ra'anan S.,
Chajes, J. H.,
El-Or, Tamar,
Goldberg, Harvey E.,
Goldberg, Sylvie Anne,
Kanarfogel, Ephraim,
Katriel, Tamar,
Kosansky, Oren,
Prell, Riv-Ellen,
Raspe, Lucia,
Rustow, Marina,
Sabar, Shalom,
Schatz, Andrea,
Swartz, Michael D.,
HerausgeberIn:
Boustan, Ra'anan S.,
Kosansky, Oren,
Rustow, Marina,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 16 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Anthropology, History, and the Remaking of Jewish Studies
  • PART I. AUTHORITY
  • Chapter 1. "How Do You Know That I Am a Jew?": Authority, Cultural Identity, and the Shaping of Postwar American Judaism
  • Chapter 2. Rabbis and Their (In)Famous Magic: Classical Foundations, Medieval and Early Modern Reverberations
  • Chapter 3. Dreamers in Paradise: The Rise and Fall of a New Holy Site in Beit She'an, Israel
  • Chapter 4. Words, Images, and Magic: The Protection of the Bride and Bridegroom in Jewish Marriage Contracts
  • PART II. DIASPORA
  • Chapter 5. The Dislocation of the Temple Vessels: Mobile Sanctity and Rabbinic Rhetorics of Space
  • Chapter 6. Sacred Space, Local History, and Diasporic Identity: The Graves of the Righteous in Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz
  • Chapter 7. Detours in a "Hidden Land": Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav
  • Chapter 8. The Rhetoric of Rescue: "Salvage Immigration" Narratives in Israeli Culture
  • PART III. TRADITION
  • Chapter 9. Judaism and Tradition: Continuity, Change, and Innovation
  • Chapter 10. In the Path of Our Fathers: On Tradition and Time from Jerusalem to Babylonia and Beyond
  • Chapter 11. Prayer, Literacy, and Literary Memory in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Europe
  • Chapter 12. A Temple in Your Kitchen: Hafrashat H˙ allah-The Rebirth of a Forgotten Ritual as a Public Ceremony
  • Chapter 13. Judaism and the Idea of Ancient Ritual Theory
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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