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Eating at God's Table

How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities

Jody Myers

The practice and meaning of kosher Orthodox foodways in sustaining a vibrant and diverse community.

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Available November 2023
ISBN: 9780814349557
$94.99
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Available November 2023
ISBN: 9780814349540
$36.99
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Available November 2023
ISBN: 9780814349564

Jewish Revival Inside Out

Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age

Edited by Daniel Monterescu and Rachel Werczberger

Unravels the cultural tension inherent in projects of Jewish revival, renewal, and survival in the face of an uncertain future.

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Published: December 2022
ISBN: 9780814349182
$94.99
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Published: December 2022
ISBN: 9780814349175
$39.99
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Published: December 2022
ISBN: 9780814349496

The Legend of Safed

Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

Eli Yassif
Translated by Haim Watzman

Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.

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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814341100
$84.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346846
$32.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814341117

Concrete Boxes

Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery

Pnina Motzafi-Haller
With a Foreword by Virginia R. Dominguez

Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community.

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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814344422
$64.99
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340592
$36.99
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340608

The Meaning of Citizenship

Edited by Richard Marback and Marc W. Kruman

An interdisciplinary exploration of four key issues in the theory and practice of citizenship.

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Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814341308
$44.99
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Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814341315

In the Company of Others

The Development of Anthropology in Israel

Orit Abuhav

An ethnographic account of the history and development of anthropology in Israel.

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Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814338735
$54.99
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Published: June 2015
ISBN: 9780814338742

Jadid al-Islam

The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed

by Raphael Patai

This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam—"New Muslims."

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Published: May 2014
ISBN: 9780814340752
$29.99
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Published: May 2014
ISBN: 9780814326527
$44.95
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Published: May 2014
ISBN: 9780814341858

Aesthetics of Sorrow

The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women

Tova Gamliel

Investigates the socio-cultural, psychological, and philosophical aspects of the Yemenite Jewish wailing tradition in modern Israel.

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Published: April 2014
ISBN: 9780814334768
$56.99
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Published: April 2014
ISBN: 9780814339756

Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel

Beverly Mizrachi

Investigates class mobility in a group of 40­­-50-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant women, members of a subordinate ethnic group in Israel.

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Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814338810
$49.99
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Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814338582
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Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic

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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Published: April 2010
ISBN: 9780814334652
$32.99

Unwitting Zionists

The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan

Haya Gavish

A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community’s attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and Israel.

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Published: November 2009
ISBN: 9780814333662
$56.99
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Published: November 2009
ISBN: 9780814336892

Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology

Edited by Esther Hertzog, Orit Abuhav, Harvey E. Goldberg, and Emanuel Marx

Surveys past and present research on Israeli anthropology for students and researchers.

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Published: November 2009
ISBN: 9780814330500
$56.99

Settling in the Hearts

Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories

Michael Feige

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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Published: March 2009
ISBN: 9780814327500
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Maqam and Liturgy

Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn

Mark L. Kligman

Explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music.

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Published: January 2009
ISBN: 9780814332160
$49.99
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Published: January 2009
ISBN: 9780814341865

Ex-Soviets in Israel

From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait

Larisa Fialkova and Maria N. Yelenevskaya

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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Published: May 2007
ISBN: 9780814331699
$52.99
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Published: May 2007
ISBN: 9780814338391

A Narrative Community

Voices of Israeli Backpackers

Chaim Noy

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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Published: November 2006
ISBN: 9780814331767
$32.99
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Published: November 2006
ISBN: 9780814337585
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The Stains of Culture

An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women

Ruth Tsoffar

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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Published: December 2005
ISBN: 9780814332238
$28.99

Manipulating the Sacred

Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé

Mikelle S. Omari-Tunkara

The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.

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Published: October 2005
ISBN: 9780814328521
$30.95

Dialogic Moments

From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture

Tamar Katriel

An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communication—soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio.

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Published: September 2004
ISBN: 9780814327753
$29.99
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Published: September 2004
ISBN: 9780814327746
$51.95
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Published: September 2004
ISBN: 9780814337509

Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine

The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948

By Yaacov Shavit and Shoshana Sitton
Translated by Chaya Naor

By analyzing key aspects of Hebrew culture, this book adds new dimension to the anthropological, sociological, and historical studies dealing with folklore, rituals, and festivals.

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Published: August 2004
ISBN: 9780814328453
$49.99
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Published: August 2004
ISBN: 9780814341889

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