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  • af Haya Bar-Itzhak
    413,95 kr.

  • - An Ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish Women
    af Ruth Tsoffar
    383,95 kr.

    Considers how Egyptian Kariates of the San Francisco Bay Area define themselves, within both California culture and Judaism, in terms of the Bible and its bearing on their bodies. This work is useful for students of women's studies, anthropology, minority cultural production, and scholars of religion and Judaism.

  • af Tova Gamliel
    738,95 kr.

  • af Yosef Tobi & Tsivia Tobi
    798,95 kr.

  • - Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery
    af Pnina Motzafi-Haller
    463,95 - 878,95 kr.

    Offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the centre, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions.

  • - Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles
    af Haya Bar-Itzhak
    298,95 kr.

    Examination the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community is created.

  • - Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem
    af Dana Hercbergs
    998,95 kr.

    Continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada.

  • - Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah
    af Eli Yassif
    453,95 - 1.128,95 kr.

    In 1908, Solomon Schechter published his groundbreaking essay on the city of Safed (Tzfat) during the sixteenth century. In The Legend of Safed, Eli Yassif utilizes "new historicism" methodology in order to use the non-canonical materials to better understand the culture of Safed.

  • - Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
     
    608,95 kr.

  • af Raphael Patai
    453,95 kr.

  • - The Jewish Folklorists of Poland
    af Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman
    578,95 kr.

    This work brings together a collection of Yiddish folklore from Poland, between the two world wars. It examines the evolution of Yiddish folklore and its role in creation of Yiddish nationalism, focussing on three important folklore circles, including the Warsaw group.

  • - Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories
    af Michael Feige
    738,95 kr.

    Describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. This title argues that by constructing the meaning of contested territories as a national homeland, the ideological settlers attempt to redefine Zionism, Israel, and Judaism.

  • - Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
    af Mark L. Kligman
    583,95 kr.

    Explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music. This book investigates the multidimensional interaction of music and text in Sabbath prayers of the Syrian Jews to trace how Arab and Jewish traditions have merged in this particular culture.