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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