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Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the AestheticBy Amy Horowitz Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century. Price: $29.95s (Paper) | |||
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The Heart Is a Mirror
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Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin ArchiveEdited by Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin From the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a collection of traditional Yiddish folksongs by highly regarded ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin, presented with added commentary from music scholars Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin. Price: $34.95s (Paper) | |||
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Ex-Soviets in Israel
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A Narrative Community
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Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century. |
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The Heart Is a Mirror A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the Sephardic folktale as it relates to group identity and narrative culture. |
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Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive From the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a collection of traditional Yiddish folksongs by highly regarded ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin, presented with added commentary from music scholars Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin. |
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Ex-Soviets in Israel A groundbreaking study of personal stories from ex-Soviet immigrants in Israel, bringing together scholarship in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, semiotics, and social psychology. |
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A Narrative Community An intertextual examination of the storytelling of Israeli backpackers that analyzes their unique patterns of communication to create a thorough picture of this “narrative community.” |
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The Stains of Culture Portrays the experiences of Egyptian Karaites in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores the relationship between text and everyday life, between literal reading and its translation into bodily practices—especially as related to the female body. |
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Israeli Folk Narratives Provides a broad, engaging view of Israeli society through folk stories that have circulated among settlers in the kibbutz, immigrants, and ethnic groups. |
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Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals Examining the mystical practices associated with food in zoharic kabbalah and the ways they inform us about the kabbalistic experience of embodiment. |
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Dialogic Moments An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communication—soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio. |
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King Solomon and the Golden Fish A collection of fifty-four Judeo-Spanish folktales taken from the rich heritage of Sephardic oral storytelling and translated into English for the first time. |
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