Jewish Studies
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Jewish Studies Categories: Jewish Studies: Folklore, History, Holocaust Studies, Israel and the Middle East, Literature and Poetry, Thought, Women and Judaism, Jewish Life and Tradition
Jewish Studies Series: America Holy Land Series, American Jewish Civilization Series, Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology, A Guide to Jewish Practice Series
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Narratives of Dissent
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Choosing Yiddish
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Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters
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Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance
Edited by Judith Brin Ingber A comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Jewish dance. Price: $34.95s (Cloth) |
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Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
By 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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Narratives of Dissent Explores cultural responses to war in Israeli society since 1978. |
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Choosing Yiddish Highlights an international generation of notable and emerging scholars currently revitalizing the field of Yiddish studies. |
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Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters A cultural history of gay filmmaking in Israel that explores its role in the rise of gay consciousness over the past three decades. |
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Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance A comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Jewish dance. |
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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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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. |
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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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