03486nam a2200433 a 4500 ebr10641607 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100817s2011 paua sb 001 0 eng d 2010034237 9780812243031 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780812204865 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)794925505 BM42 .J485 2011eb 296.071 22 Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history [electronic resource] : authority, diaspora, tradition / edited by Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow. 1st ed. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011. x, 431 p. : ill. Jewish culture and contexts 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 (p. [335]-413) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Judaism Study and teaching. Jews Study and teaching. Authority Religious aspects Judaism. Jewish diaspora. Tradition (Judaism) Electronic books. local Boustan, Ra�anan S., 1971- Kosansky, Oren. Rustow, Marina. Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10641607 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 42887 42887