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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 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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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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Settling in the Hearts
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From New Zion to Old Zion
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Music in the World of Islam
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Jerusalem and Its Environs
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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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Settling in the Hearts Describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. |
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From New Zion to Old Zion Why would American Jews want to leave America, and what characterized their resettlement? From New Zion to Old Zion analyzes the migration of American Jews to Palestine between the two World Wars and explores the contribution of these settlers to the buil |
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Music in the World of Islam The story of music told in this book begins in pre-Islamic times with musical forms that bear strong imprints of the Bedouin's tribal way of life. |
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Jerusalem and Its Environs Ruth Kark and Michal Oren-Nordeim trace the city's interaction with its rural hinterland until the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, when Jerusalem became socially and geographically divided in two. |
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Beyond Survival and Philanthropy Beyond Survival and Philanthropy explores the changing relationship between America and Israel as Israeli political and economic conditions have stabilized, and addresses the question: What will hold the Diaspora and Israel together as the traditional "cr |
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Twenty Israeli Composers In first person narrative, twenty of Israel's leading art-music composers discuss the interaction of inspiration, method and cultural context in their work, revealing both international and national influence and scope. |
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Without Forgetting the Imam Without Forgetting the Imam is an ethnographic study of the religious life of the Lebanese Shi'ites of Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Muslim community outside of the Middle East. |
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American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914 This volume provides new insights into the role of U.S. consuls in the Ottoman Middle East in the special context of the Holy Land. |
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Danzig 1939 The book represents decades of research on the ceremonial art and history of the Danzig Jewish community, which, in a unique action in the early spring of 1939, voted to dissolve itself and emigrate rather than submit to the Nazis. |
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