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The Shabbat elevator and other Sabbath subterfuges : an unorthodox essay on circumventing custom and Jewish character / Alan Dundes.

Title
The Shabbat elevator and other Sabbath subterfuges : an unorthodox essay on circumventing custom and Jewish character / Alan Dundes.
Author
Dundes, Alan
Publication
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.

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Description
xiii, 201 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Sabbath (Jewish law)
  • Prohibited work (Jewish law)
  • Jews > Psychology
  • Judaism and psychoanalysis
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-193) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Concept of Custom -- The Sabbath in the Old Testament -- The Sabbath in the New Testament -- The Sabbath in Rabbinical Tradition -- The Shabbat Elevator -- The Light in the Refrigerator -- The Eruv as Symbolic Space -- Other Sabbath Customs -- The Shabbes Goy -- Circumvention and Jewish Mentality -- Obsession and Religion According to Freud -- Anal Erotic Character -- Self-Imposed Repression -- The Love of Argument.
ISBN
  • 0742516709 (alk. paper)
  • 0742516717 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001041927
OCLC
  • 47364108
  • SCSB-11486680
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library