Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history
Subtitle: authority, diaspora, tradition
By: edited by Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow
Contributors: Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jewish culture and contexts; Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812243031
Notes: 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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Anthropology, history, and the remaking of Jewish studies / Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow; title: "How do you know that I am a Jew?" : authority, cultural identity, and the shaping of postwar American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell; title: Rabbis and their (in)famous magic : classical foundations, medieval and early modern reverberations / J. H. Chajes; title: Dreamers in paradise : the rise and fall of a new holy site in Beit She'an, Israel / Yoram Bilu; title: Words, images, and magic : the protection of the bride and bridegroom in Jewish marriage contracts / Shalom Sabar; title: The dislocation of the temple vessels : mobile sanctity and rabbinic rhetorics of space / Ra'anan S. Boustan; title: Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe; title: Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz; title: The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel; title: Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. Baumgarten and Marina Rustow; title: In the path of our fathers : on tradition and time from Jerusalem to Babylonia and beyond / Sylvie Anne Goldberg; title: Prayer, literacy, and literary memory in the Jewish communities of medieval Europe / Ephraim Kanarfogel; title: A temple in your kitchen : hafrashat @hallah-the rebirth of a forgotten ritual as a public ceremony / Tamar El-Or; title: Judaism and the idea of ancient ritual theory / Michael D. Swartz; title: Toward an integrative approach in Jewish studies : a view from anthropology / Harvey E. Goldberg.