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Writing Jewish Culture

Author : Andreas Kilcher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019648
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Writing Jewish Culture written by Andreas Kilcher and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important.” —Washington Book Review Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of “ethnoliterature” across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.

Studies in the Ethnography and Literature of Judaism

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University of South Florida
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Ethnography and Literature of Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by University of South Florida. This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Approaches to Ancient Judaism: Studies in the Ethnography and literature of Judaism

Author : William Scott Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Ancient Judaism: Studies in the Ethnography and literature of Judaism written by William Scott Green and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Judaism in Christian Eyes

Author : Yaacov Deutsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199756538
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Judaism in Christian Eyes written by Yaacov Deutsch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Christian ethnographic writing about the Jews in early modern Europe, offering a systematic historical analysis of this literary genre and arguing its importance for better understanding both the period in general and Jewish-Christian relations in particular. The book focuses on nearly 80 texts from Western Europe (mostly Germany) that describe the customs and ceremonies of the contemporary Jews, containing both descriptions and illustrations of their subjects. Deutsch is one of the first scholars to study these unique writings in extensive detail. He examines books in which Christian authors describe Jewish life and provides new interpretations of Christian perceptions of Jews, Christian Hebraism, and the attention paid by the Hebraist to contemporary Jews and Judaism. Since many of the authors were converts, studying their books offers new insights into conversion during the period. Their work presents new perspectives the study of religion, developments in the field of anthropology and ethnography, and internal Christian debates that arose from the portrayal of Jewish life. Despite the lack of attention by modern scholars, some of these books were extremely popular in their time and represent one of the important ways by which Jews were perceived during the period. The key claim of the study is that, although almost all of the descriptions of Jewish customs are accurate, the authors chose to concentrate mainly on details that show the Jewish ceremonies as anti-Christian, superstitious, and ridiculous; these details also reveal the deviation of Judaism from the Biblical law. Deutsch suggests that these ethnographic descriptions are better defined as polemical ethnographies and argues that the texts, despite their polemical tendency, represent a shift from writing about Judaism as a religion to writing about Jews, and from a mode of writing based on stereotypes to one based on direct contact and observation.

Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

Author : Alanna E. Cooper
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253006554
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism written by Alanna E. Cooper and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, Alanna E. Cooper traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, Cooper tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be Bukharan Jewish. Together with her historical research about a series of dramatic encounters between Bukharan Jews and Jews in other parts of the world, this lively narrative illuminates the tensions inherent in maintaining Judaism as a single global religion over the course of its long and varied diaspora history.

Going to the People

Author : Jeffrey Veidlinger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019168
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Going to the People written by Jeffrey Veidlinger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking S. An-sky's expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement as its point of departure, the volume explores the dynamic and many-sided nature of ethnographic knowledge and the long and complex history of the production and consumption of Jewish folk traditions. These essays by historians, anthropologists, musicologists, and folklorists showcase some of the finest research in the field. They reveal how the collection, analysis, and preservation of ethnography intersect with questions about the construction and delineation of community, the preservation of Jewishness, the meaning of belief, the significance of retrieving cultural heritage, the politics of accessing and memorializing "lost" cultures, and the problem of narration, among other topics.

Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume VI

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930675735
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume VI written by Jacob Neusner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethnographic Topics Relating to Jews in Polish Studies

Author : Olga Goldberg-Mulkiewicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethnographic Topics Relating to Jews in Polish Studies written by Olga Goldberg-Mulkiewicz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethnography of Jews living in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe in general, and Poland in particular, has not attracted wide attention among scholars. Few took an interest in this subject when the task of collecting rich documentary materials did not pose special problems. The situation today is not much different, and the lack of interest in the field is matched by the scarcity of sources and of secondary literature, which, in addition, remains difficult to master. Those studies of Polish Jews which do exist are not easily located not only because there are relatively few of them, but also because they are scattered throughout many publications in various languages. This situation prompted the author to write the present work, the purpose of which is to enable future scholars to locate works on the subject published in Polish.

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 9780199280322
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies written by Martin Goodman and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Jewish Cultural Studies

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338763
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Cultural Studies written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.

Jews and Other Differences

Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816627509
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Jews and Other Differences written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History

Author : Ra'anan S. Boustan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204867
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History written by Ra'anan S. Boustan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and to generate new concepts appropriate to a more inclusive view of Jewish culture and society. Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History brings together scholars in anthropology, history, religious studies, comparative literature, and other fields to chart new directions in Jewish studies across the disciplines. This groundbreaking volume explores forms of Jewish experience that span the period from antiquity to the present and encompass a wide range of textual, ritual, spatial, and visual materials. The essays give full consideration to non-written expressions of ritual performance, artistic production, spoken narrative, and social experience through which Jewish life emerges. More than simply contributing to an appreciation of Jewish diversity, the contributors devote their attention to three key concepts—authority, diaspora, and tradition—that have long been central to the study of Jews and Judaism. Moving beyond inherited approaches and conventional academic boundaries, the volume reconsiders these core concepts, reorienting our understanding of the dynamic relationships between text and practice, and continuity and change in Jewish contexts. More broadly, this volume furthers conversation across the disciplines by using Judaic studies to provoke inquiry into theoretical problems in a range of other areas.

Storm from Paradise

Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816620954
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Storm from Paradise written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm from Paradise was first published in 1992. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Usefully complicating common sense understandings of history, catastrophe, loss, otherness, and possibility through reflections on contemporary Jewishness, Boyarin draws on Benjamins's famous image of the Angel of History blown into the future by a "storm from paradise" to constantly interrogate and recuperate the past, "without pretending for long that we can recoup its plentitude". The book's seven thoughtful essays are at times deliberately intangible but always worth reading. An important book for the rethinking of the relevance of Jewishness to anthropology and cultural studies." –Religious Studies Review "An essay in the richest sense of that term, inspired by and modeled on Walter Benjamin's essays. Based on varied, diverse, and abundantly cross-disciplinary readings, it moves and builds, questions and interrogates, and ultimately convinces us that the Jewish experience with being the 'other' and, conversely and recently, with 'othering' is indeed relevant to theorists of contemporary culture." –Marianne Hirsch Jonathan Boyarin is the author of Palestine and Jewish History, and co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin, of Jews and Other Differences and Powers of Diaspora.

Ethnic Survival in America

Author : David Louis Schoem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Survival in America written by David Louis Schoem and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study designed to uncover the reality between the formal and informal aspects of a Congregational school.

New World Hasidim

Author : Janet S. Belcove-Shalin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791496201
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book New World Hasidim written by Janet S. Belcove-Shalin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hasidim has long been the subject of historical, philosophical, and literary accounts, but it is only in recent years that it has begun to attract the close attention of social scientists. This book highlights contemporary ethnographic perspectives that convey the richness and complexity of Hasidic life. Political engagement, gender roles, ritual life, proselytizing activities, and community revitalization are just some of the topics covered in this study that casts light on one of the more enigmatic religious communities of contemporary America.

Salvage Poetics

Author : Sheila E. Jelen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814343198
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Salvage Poetics written by Sheila E. Jelen and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

The Three Questions of Formative Judaism

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9780391041776
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Three Questions of Formative Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing nearly fifty years of research to bear on these fundamental questions, Jacob Neusner challenges his readers to face the difficult, often unasked or neglected questions about the nature, background, and purposes of Rabbinic Judaism and rewards them with an enriched understanding and a stronger foundation for tackling the even more elusive questions concerning the theology of formative Judaism."--BOOK JACKET.