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Book Synopsis A Treasury of American-Jewish Folklore by : Steve Koppman
Download or read book A Treasury of American-Jewish Folklore written by Steve Koppman and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-05-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit www.rlpgbooks.com.
Book Synopsis Jewish Folklore in America by : David Max Eichhorn
Download or read book Jewish Folklore in America written by David Max Eichhorn and published by Jonathan David Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country is divided in six regions and the episodes contained within each are presented chronologically. These vignettes, anecdotes, and historical episodes are enlightening, sobering and above all highly entertaining.
Book Synopsis A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore by : Josepha Sherman
Download or read book A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore written by Josepha Sherman and published by august house. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this American Folklore Series volume, Josepha Sherman presents the rich and varied folklore of the American Jew. This affectionate and unflinching examination of the traditions of American Jews offers insights for expert and casual students of folklore and makes an ideal gift for anyone interested in the origins of Jewish culture. Includes line drawings, collection notes, motif index, and bibliography.
Book Synopsis Divination, Magic, and Healing by : Ronald H. Isaacs
Download or read book Divination, Magic, and Healing written by Ronald H. Isaacs and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book Tree of Souls written by Howard Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-27 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. For each myth, he includes extensive commentary, revealing the source of the myth and explaining how it relates to other Jewish myths as well as to world literature --from publisher description
Download or read book Gabriel's Palace written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 150 tales from the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore.
Book Synopsis Women Remaking American Judaism by : Riv-Ellen Prell
Download or read book Women Remaking American Judaism written by Riv-Ellen Prell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations. The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women’s issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements. Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary. Women Remaking American Judaism raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.
Book Synopsis Joys of Jewish Folklore by : David Max Eichhorn
Download or read book Joys of Jewish Folklore written by David Max Eichhorn and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burning Girls and Other Stories by : Veronica Schanoes
Download or read book Burning Girls and Other Stories written by Veronica Schanoes and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for The Independent | Buzzfeed | The Nerd Daily When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger. We also brought our demons. In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. This debut collection introduces readers to a fantasist in the vein of Karen Russell and Kelly Link, with a voice all her own. Emma Goldman—yes, that Emma Goldman—takes tea with the Baba Yaga and truths unfold inside of exquisitely crafted lies. In "Among the Thorns," a young woman in seventeenth century Germany is intent on avenging the brutal murder of her peddler father, but discovers that vengeance may consume all that it touches. In the showstopping, awards finalist title story, "Burning Girls," Schanoes invests the immigrant narrative with a fearsome fairytale quality that tells a story about America we may not want—but need—to hear. Dreamy, dangerous, and precise, with the weight of the very oldest tales we tell, Burning Girls and Other Stories introduces a writer pushing the boundaries of both fantasy and contemporary fiction. With a foreword by Jane Yolen At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The Jew in the Old American Folklore by : Rudolf Glanz
Download or read book The Jew in the Old American Folklore written by Rudolf Glanz and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves from the Garden of Eden written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition. Just as Schwartz's award-winning book Tree of Souls collected the essential myths of Jewish tradition, Leaves from the Garden of Eden collects one hundred essential Jewish tales. As imaginative as the Arabian Nights, these stories invoke enchanted worlds, demonic realms, and mystical experiences. The four most popular types of Jewish tales are gathered here--fairy tales, folktales, supernatural tales, and mystical tales--taking readers on heavenly journeys, lifelong quests, and descents to the underworld. There is a dybbuk lurking in a well, a book that comes to life, and a world where Lilith, the Queen of Demons, seduces the unsuspecting. Here too are Jewish versions of many of the best-known tales, including "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Rapunzel." Schwartz's retelling of one of these stories, "The Finger," inspired Tim Burton's film Corpse Bride.
Book Synopsis Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore by : Raphael Patai
Download or read book Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore written by Raphael Patai and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews by : Galit Hasan-Rokem
Download or read book Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews written by Galit Hasan-Rokem and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
Book Synopsis Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter by :
Download or read book Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter written by and published by Simon Bronner. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jewish Musical Traditions by : Amnon Shiloah
Download or read book Jewish Musical Traditions written by Amnon Shiloah and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiloah (musicology, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem ) discusses the manner in which the 2,000-year-old Jewish musical heritage meshes with the complex web of Jewish history by way of central themes such as the relation of music to religion, music and the world of the Kabbalah, and music in communal life. He considers technical and theoretical approaches, as well as art music, folk music, and performance practices of poets, vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Cultural Jew by : Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
Download or read book The Myth of the Cultural Jew written by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In reality, however, much of Jewish culture has a basis in Jewish law. Similarly, Jewish law produces Jewish culture. Roberta Rosenthal Kwall develops and applies a cultural analysis paradigm to the Jewish tradition that departs from the understanding of Jewish law solely as the embodiment of Divine command.
Book Synopsis Pomegranate Seeds by : Nadia Grosser Nagarajan
Download or read book Pomegranate Seeds written by Nadia Grosser Nagarajan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pomegranate Seedsis the first collection of the oral tradition of Latin American Jews to be presented in English. These thirty-four tales span the 500 years of Jewish presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The folktales and cultural oral narratives were often based on actual events, recorded not only from the Ashkenazi perspective but from the Sephardic and Oriental as well. Like dispersed pomegranate seeds, all the stories come from a common cluster, yet each is a separate kernel. The stories are short, between five and fifteen pages, and each is carefully annotated. In addition to gathering stories from eleven Latin American countries, the author found material in the United States and Israel. Regardless of their origin, several tales have to do with personal feelings, emotional insights, and interpretation of the protagonists, while others deal with happy or traumatic events that cannot be forgotten and dreams that have not been fulfilled. Not surprisingly, trauma and bigotry are common threads through some of the stories. These are tales, as Nadia Grosser Nagarajan says, "concealed by tropical greenery, encircled by vast jungles and flowing majestic rivers that echo many voices and reflect many views and visions."
