Jewish Blues : : A History of a Color in Judaism / / Gadi Sagiv.
Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Bridging diverse domains such as religious law, mysticism, eschatology, as well as clothing and literature, this book contends that, by way of a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 14 color images (insert) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Materiality of Blue in Premodern Judaism
- Chapter 2. Tekhelet in Medieval Jewish Mysticism: Cosmology, Theology, and Vision
- Chapter 3. Blue Garments in Early Modern Judaism: Between Kabbalistic Symbolism and Social Practice
- Chapter 4. The Modern Renaissance of the Tekhelet Dye
- Chapter 5. Reactions to Modern Tekhelet: Blue as a Sociocultural Challenge
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments