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Subjects

Jewish diaspora, Study and teaching, Judaism, Jews, Tradition (Judaism), Authority, Judaism, study and teaching, Authority, religious aspects, Tradition (judaism)

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Table of Contents

Anthropology, history, and the remaking of Jewish studies / Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow
"How do you know that I 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 : the rise 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 in your 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.

Edition 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Philadelphia
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Jewish culture and contexts, Jewish culture and contexts

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296.071
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BM42 .J485 2011, BM42.J485 2011

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OL24494607M
ISBN 13
9780812243031
LCCN
2010034237
OCLC/WorldCat
663101289

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