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Painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis how Jews craft resilience and create community

Title
Painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis [electronic resource] : how Jews craft resilience and create community / Jodi Eichler-Levine.
Author
Eichler-Levine, Jodi.
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

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Description
1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
"Exploring a contemporary Judaism of feeling, one rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes us inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement. Traveling across the country to homes, craft conventions, synagogue knitting circles, and craftivist actions, she joins in the making, asking questions, and contemplating her own family stories. From Jewish Hearts for Pittsburgh to the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework, Jewish Americans, many of them women, are creating ritual challah covers and prayer shawls, and metal, clay, or ink pieces for family, friends, or Jewish charities. But they are doing much more, Eichler-Levine shows: armed with perhaps only a needle and thread, they are reckoning with Jewish identity in a fragile and dangerous world"--
Series Statement
Where religion lives
Uniform Title
  • Painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis (Online)
  • Where religion lives.
Alternative Title
Painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis (Online)
Subject
  • Jewish crafts > United States
  • Jews > United States > Identity
  • Handicraft > Social aspects > United States
  • Handicraft > United States > Religious aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
LCCN
2020010717
OCLC
ssj0002404577
Author
Eichler-Levine, Jodi.
Title
Painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis [electronic resource] : how Jews craft resilience and create community / Jodi Eichler-Levine.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series
Where religion lives
Where religion lives.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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