Jews and shoes
By: [edited by] Edna Nahson.
Contributors: Nahson, Edna.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg; Bloomsbury 3PL; Berg Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781847880499; 9781847880505
Subjects: Shoes -- Social aspects; Shoes -- Psychological aspects; Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Jews -- Material culture; Jews -- Folklore
Description: "Jews and Shoes takes a fresh look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers and barefootedness in Jewish experience. The book shows how shoes convey theological, social and economic concepts, and as such are intriguing subjects for inquiry within a wide range of cultural, artistic and historic contexts." "The book's multidisciplinary approach encompasses a wide range of contributions from disciplines as diverse as Bible and Talmud, visual culture, history, anthropology, fashion and performance studies. Jews and Shoes will appeal to students, scholars and general readers alike who are interested to find out more about the practical and symbolic significance of shoes in Jewish culture since antiquity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jews and shoes / Edna Nahshon; title: The biblical shoe : "Eschewing footwear: the call of Moses as biblical archetype" / Ora Prouser; title: The halitzah shoe : between female subjugation and symbolic emasculation / Catherine Hezser; title: The tombstone shoe : shoe-shaped tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in the Ukraine / Rivka Parciack; title: The Israeli shoe : "biblical sandals" and native Israeli identity / Orna Ben-Meir; title: The shtetl shoe : how to make a shoe / Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; title: The folkloristic shoe : shoes and shoemakers in Yiddish language and folklore / Robert A. Rothstein; title: The Holocaust shoe : untying memory : shoes as Holocaust memorial experience / Jeffrey Feldman; title: Wanderer's shoe : the cobbler's penalty : the wandering Jew in search for salvation / Shelly Zer-Zion; title: The equalizing shoe : shoes as a symbol of equality in the Jewish society in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century / Ayala Raz; title: The fetishist's shoe : "poems of pedal atrocity" : sexuality, ethnicity, and religion in the art of Bruno Schulz / Andrew Ingall; title: The artist's shoe : digging into the Jewish roots of shoe-field / Sonya Rapoport; title: The theatrical shoe : the utterance of shoemaking : cobblers on the Israeli stage / Dorit Yerushalmi; title: The cinematic shoe : Ernst Lubitsch's East European "touch" in Pinkus's Shoe Palace / Jeanette Malkin.