Format:
1 online resource (364 pages)
ISBN:
9781438404288
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies
Content:
Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Reflections on the Mutual Relevance of Anthropology and Judaic Studies -- Content -- History and Patterning -- Introduction to Part I -- The Laws of Mixture: An Anthropological Study in Halakhah -- The Consumption of Sabbatical Year Produce in Biblicaland Rabbinic Literature -- Torah and Children: Some Symbolic Aspects of the Reproduction of Jews and Judaism -- Judaism in America -- Introduction to Part II -- Life Not Death in Venice": Its Second Life -- Sacred Categories and Social Relations: The Visibility and Invisibility of Gender in an American Jewish Community -- Sacred Categories and Social Relations: The Visibility and Invisibility of Gender in an American Jewish Community -- Drama on a Table: The Bobover Hasidim Piremshbpiyl -- Judaism in Israel -- Introduction to Part III -- Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism -- The Symbolic Inscription of Zionist Ideology in the Space of Eretz Yisrael: Why the Native Israeli is called Tsabar -- Dreams and the Wishes of the Saint -- Back Matter -- Epilogue: Text in Jewish Society and the Challenge of Comparison -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780887063541
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780887063541
Language:
English
