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Sacred cows, holy wars : verities and vagaries in deciding what's kosher and what's not

Title
Sacred cows, holy wars : verities and vagaries in deciding what's kosher and what's not / Kenneth Lasson.
Author
Lasson, Kenneth
Publication
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2017]

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Description
xv, 243 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Forbidden food. The biblical, traditional, and historical backdrop -- Biblical injunctions -- From community regulation to big business -- Governmental intervention and involvement -- II. Sacred cows. The limits of law in regulating religious rules -- Bans on shechitah -- The problem with statutory regulation -- Kashrus and the courts -- III. Holy wars. Perceptions, politics, and filthy lucre -- Something ain't kosher here -- Kosher certification agencies -- Law and politics in the cut-throat business of kashrus -- Kosher meat scandals in America and beyond -- Oddities and excesses.
ISBN
  • 9781611636994
  • 161163699X
LCCN
  • 2016049798
  • 40027084691
OCLC
  • ocn961457681
  • 961457681
  • SCSB-5887453
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries