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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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.
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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl
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The Heart Is a Mirror
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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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The Stains of Culture Portrays the experiences of Egyptian Karaites in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores the relationship between text and everyday life, between literal reading and its translation into bodily practices—especially as related to the female body. |
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Israeli Folk Narratives Provides a broad, engaging view of Israeli society through folk stories that have circulated among settlers in the kibbutz, immigrants, and ethnic groups. |
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