TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baumgarten,Albert I.
AU  - Bilu,Yoram
AU  - Boustan,Ra'anan S.
AU  - Chajes,J.H.
AU  - El-Or,Tamar
AU  - Goldberg,Harvey E.
AU  - Goldberg,Sylvie Anne
AU  - Kanarfogel,Ephraim
AU  - Katriel,Tamar
AU  - Kosansky,Oren
AU  - Prell,Riv-Ellen
AU  - Raspe,Lucia
AU  - Rustow,Marina
AU  - Sabar,Shalom
AU  - Schatz,Andrea
AU  - Swartz,Michael D.
TI  - Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition 
T2  - Jewish Culture and Contexts
SN  - 9780812243031
AV  - BM42 .J485 2011eb
U1  - 296.071 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Authority
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Jewish diaspora
KW  - Jews
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - History
KW  - Tradition (Judaism)
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Religion
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
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