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Revisioning ritual : Jewish traditions in transition / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

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Revisioning ritual : Jewish traditions in transition / edited by Simon J. Bronner.
Publication
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Bronner, Simon J.
Description
x, 428 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm
Series Statement
  • The Littman library of Jewish civilization
  • Jewish cultural studies ; v. 3
Uniform Title
  • Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
  • Jewish cultural studies v. 3.
Subject
Judaism > Customs and practices
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Ritualizing Jewishness / Simon J. Bronner -- The riddle of Se'udat Yitro: interpreting a celebration among Tunisia's Jews / Harvey E. Goldberg and Hagar Salamon -- Ritual and history: the order of prayers for Israel Independence Day (Yom Ha'atsma'ut) / Seth Ward -- The masquerade of ideas: the Purimshpil as theatre of conflict / Jean R. Freedman -- Be worthy of your heritage: Jews and tradition at two New England boarding schools / Michael Hoberman -- Engendering Halakhah: Rachel Adler's Berit Ahuvim and the quest to create a feminist Halakhic praxis / Gail Labovitz -- Same-sex marriage ceremonies in a time of coalescence / Vanessa L. Ochs -- The power of discourse: negotiating modernity and tradition in the Jewish wedding / Irit Koren -- Tradition in intercultural transition: marriage rituals in Ethiopia and Israel / Rachel Sharaby -- Kaddish for angels: revisioning funerary rituals and cemeteries in nineteenth-century Jewish Warsaw / Agnieszka Jagodzińska -- Rituals of mourning among Central Asia's Bukharan Jews: remembering the past and addressing the present / Alanna E. Cooper -- Shiva as creative ritual in an institutional home / Jillian Gould -- Are you just what you eat? Ritual slaughter and the politics of national identity / Sander L. Gilman -- The bureaucratization of ritual innovation: the festive cycle of the American Soviet Jewry movement / Shaul Kelner -- New Israeli rituals: inventing a folk dance tradition / Nina S. Spiegel
ISBN
  • 9781904113478
  • 1904113478
LCCN
^^2010047712
OCLC
  • 150357574
  • SCSB-11633023
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library