Food and Judaism
By: editors, Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins, Gerald Shapiro.
Contributors: Greenspoon, Leonard J.; Simkins, Ronald.; Shapiro, Gerald, 1950-; Creighton University. Center for the Study of Religion and Society.; University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies.; Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium
Series: Studies in Jewish civilization ;; v. 15
Publisher: Creighton University Press; Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Omaha, NE; Lincoln, NE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Kosher food; Food -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Jews -- Dietary laws; Jewish law; Jews -- Social life and customs
Other titles: Food & Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Proceedings of the fifteenth annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 27-28, 2002"
"The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, The Harris Center for Judaic Studies, The Center for the Study of Religion and Society"--Half t.p.
Table of contents: title: A social history of Jewish food in America / Joan Nathan; title: Smoked salmon sushi and sturgeon stomachs : the Russian Jewish foodscapes of New York / Eve Jochnowitz; title: The art of Jewish food / Ori Z. Soltes; title: Exploring southern Jewish foodways / Marci Cohen Ferris; title: The vegetarian alternative : biblical adumbrations, modern reverberations / S. Daniel Breslauer; title: In memory's kitchen : reflections on a recently discovered form of Holocaust literature / Cara De Silva; title: Does God care what we eat? Jewish theologies of food and reverence for life / Jonathan D. Brumberg-Kraus; title: Nebraska Jewish charitable cookbooks, 1901-2002 / Oliver B. Pollak; title: Public and private in the kitchen : eating Jewish in the Soviet State / Alice Stone Nakhimovsky; title: Kashrut : the possibility and limits of women's domestic power / Ruth Ann Abusch-Magder; title: Holy kugel : the sanctification of Ashkenazic ethnic foods in Hasidism / Allan Nadler; title: "As the Jews like to eat garlick" : garlic in Christian-Jewish polemical discourse in early modern Germany / Maria Diemling; title: Separating the dishes : the history of a Jewish eating practice / David Kraemer; title: The blessing in the belly : mystical satiation in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker; title: Food of the book or food of Israel? Israelite and Jewish food laws in the Muslim exegesis of Quran 3:93 / Brannon Wheeler; title: Meals as Midrash : a survey of ancient meals in Jewish studies scholarship / Jonathan D. Brumberg-Kraus; title: The vegetarian ideal in the Bible / Gary A. Rendsburg; title: Food fight : the Americanization of kashrut in twentieth-century America / Jenna Weissman Joselit.