| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
authority, diaspora, tradition |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
RustowMarina, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
KosanskyOren, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
BoustanRa'anan S., 1971- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies |
| Place of Publication: |
Philadelphia |
| Published: |
University of Pennsylvania Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 431 p.)ill. . : |
| Series: |
Jewish culture and contexts |
| Subject: |
Tradition (Judaism) - |
| Subject: |
Jewish diaspora - |
| Subject: |
Authority - Religious aspects - |
| Subject: |
Jews - Study and teaching - |
| Subject: |
Judaism - Study and teaching - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812204865/ |
| Notes: |
A collection of essays written by scholars invited to the Herbert D.Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003-2004 |
| ISBN: |
9780812204865electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780812243031hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Anthropology, history, and the remaking of Jewish studies / Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow -- "How do you know thatI am a Jew?" : authority, cultural identity, and the shaping of postwar American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Rabbis and their (in)famous magic : classical foundations, medieval and early modern reverberations / J. H. Chajes -- Dreamers in paradise : therise and fall of a new holy site in Beit She'an, Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Words, images, and magic : the protection of the bride and bridegroom in Jewish marriage contracts/ Shalom Sabar -- The dislocation of the temple vessels : mobile sanctity and rabbinic rhetorics of space / Ra'anan S. Boustan --Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe -- Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav /Andrea Schatz -- The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture /Tamar Katriel -- Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. Baumgarten and Marina Rustow -- In the path of our fathers : on tradition and time from Jerusalem to Babylonia and beyond / Sylvie Anne Goldberg -- Prayer, literacy, and literary memory in the Jewish communities of medieval Europe / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- A temple inyour kitchen : hafrashat @hallah-the rebirth of a forgotten ritual as a public ceremony / Tamar El-Or -- Judaism and the idea of ancient ritual theory/ Michael D. Swartz -- Toward an integrative approach in Jewish studies : a view from anthropology / Harvey E. Goldberg |