Edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814350454
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
330 Pages
Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.
This work provides a guide for creative action and ritual making throughout the seasons, an exploration of anti-Zionist Judaism, and spiritual-cultural invitation to embody and expand decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish practice.
Bringing this entire spectrum into focus, Hecker ultimately considers how Kabbalists use the oral cavity and stomach, and even the emotions associated with festive meals, to produce the soul of the mystical saint.
Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current theories about ritual and prayer to understand men's and women's struggles with their religious tradition and their desire to create community.
Patai investigated and recorded are the history and oral traditions of the now-vanished Marrano community of Meshhed, Iran; cultural change among the so-called Jewish Indians of Mexico; beliefs and customs in connection with birth, the rainbow, and the color blue; Jewish variants of the widespread custom of earth-eating; and the remarkable parallels between the rituals connected with enthroning a new king as described in the Bible and as practiced among certain African tribes.
Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
Edited by Michael A. Meyer and David Myers
Introduction by David Myers
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780814338599
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2014
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
384 Pages
Bringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many disciplines.
Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany
by Michael Walton
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9780814338001
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2012
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
264 Pages
Scholars of Jewish and Christian history as well as those interested in German history, Hebrew pedagogy, and religious conversion will appreciate this thorough study.
Bernstein's rich analysis focuses on the nineteenth-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript The Story of Our Master Joseph—a Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype (itself largely based on midrashic, Hellenistic, and Near Eastern material) extending back to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry, separtism from loved ones, sexual mores, and the struggles for a continued communal existence outside the homeland.
Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
by Mark L. Kligman
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9780814332160
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: January 2009
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
288 Pages
Maqam and Liturgy brings the fascinating culture fusion of the Syrian Jews to the attention of a wider audience, including scholars and teachers of Jewish studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.
The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948
by Yaacov Shavit and Shoshana Sitton
Translated by Chaya Naor
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9780814328453
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2004
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
224 Pages
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine sheds important light on the stagers of modern Jewish Palestine and on the processes and mechanisms that created the performative lore in other cultures, in ancient as well as modern times.
Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present
Edited by Matt Goldish
Foreword by Erika Bourguignon
Introduction by Jospeh Dan
Price: $46.99
ISBN: 9780814330036
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
480 Pages
This juxtaposition of approaches among the essays in this volume, some of which analyze the same texts in different ways, creates a broad foundation on which to contemplate the meaning of spirit possession.
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