Cultures of the Jews, Volume 3 Vol. III : Modern Encounters

ISBN 10: 0805212027 / ISBN 13: 9780805212020

Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006

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Riassunto:

Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their history, are the Jews one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, some of the finest scholars of our day have contributed their insights to Cultures of the Jews, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award upon its hardcover publication in 2002.

Constructing their essays around specific cultural artifacts that were created in the period and locale under study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews–from rabbis and scholars to non-elite groups, including women–as well as between Jews and the surrounding non-Jewish world. What they conclude is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered the fixed product of either ancient ethnic or religious origins. Rather, it has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews have lived.

Modern Encounters, the third volume in Cultures of the Jews, examines communities, ways of life, and both high and folk culture in the modern era in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe; the Ladino Diaspora; North Africa and the Middle East; Ethiopia; mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel; and the United States.

Informazioni sull?autore: David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis.

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Titolo: Cultures of the Jews, Volume 3 Vol. III : ...
Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Data di pubblicazione: 2006
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