A Cultural History Of Jewish Dress

Author : Eric Silverman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847882862
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Jewish Dress written by Eric Silverman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of Jewish clothing, both profane and sacred, from its origins through to the present day. Fascinating and accessibly written, it will appeal to anybody with an interest in the central role of clothing in defining Jewish identity.

Author : Alfred Rubens
Publisher : London : Valentine, Mitchell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Jewish Costume written by Alfred Rubens and published by London : Valentine, Mitchell. This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Silverman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0857852094
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Jewish Dress written by Eric Silverman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of how Jews have been distinguished by their appearance from Ancient Israel to the present. For centuries Jews have dressed in distinctive ways to communicate their devotion to God, their religious identity, and the proper earthly roles of men and women. This lively work explores the rich history of Jewish dress, examining how Jews and non-Jews alike debated and legislated Jewish attire in different places, as well as outlining the big debates on dress within the Jewish community today. Focusing on tensions over gender, ethnic identity and assimilation, each chapter discusses the meaning and symbolism of a specific era or type of Jewish dress. What were biblical and rabbinic fashions? Why was clothing so important to immigrant Jews in America? Why do Hassidic Jews wear black? When did yarmulkes become bar mitzvah souvenirs? The book also offers the first analysis of how young Jewish adults today announce on caps, shirts, and even undergarments their striving to transform Jewishness from a religious and historical heritage into an ethnic identity that is hip, racy, and irreverent. Fascinating and accessibly written, A Cultural History of Jewish Dress will appeal to anybody interested in the central role of clothing in defining Jewish identity.

Author : Anat Helman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934843888
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Coat of Many Colors written by Anat Helman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a part in consolidating a new national identity. Based on a wide range of textual and visual historical documents, the book covers both what Israelis wore in various circumstances and what they said and wrote about clothing and fashion. Written in a clear and accessible style that will appeal to the general reader as well as students and scholars, A Coat of Many Colors introduces the reader both to Israel's history during its formative years and to the rich field of dress culture.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949865
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews at Home written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted exploration of what makes a home 'Jewish', materially and emotionally, and of what it takes to make Jews feel 'at home' in their environment.

Author : Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651246
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and American Judaism written by Pamela Susan Nadell and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.

Author : Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025322263X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Jewish History written by Marion A. Kaplan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A Major Collection of Scholarship that Contains the most up-to-Date, Indeed Cutting-Edge Work on Gender and Jewish History by Several Generations of Top Scholars."--Atina Grossmann, the Cooper Union.

Author : Daniel Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223342
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism written by Daniel Greene and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Greene traces the emergence of the idea of cultural pluralism to the lived experiences of a group of Jewish college students and public intellectuals, including the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. These young Jews faced particular challenges as they sought to integrate themselves into the American academy and literary world of the early 20th century. At Harvard University, they founded an influential student organization known as the Menorah Association in 1906 and later the Menorah Journal, which became a leading voice of Jewish public opinion in the 1920s. In response to the idea that the American melting pot would erase all cultural differences, the Menorah Association advocated a pluralist America that would accommodate a thriving Jewish culture while bringing Jewishness into mainstream American life.

Author : Robert Jütte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297652
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Body written by Robert Jütte and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte asks, should a historian bother with the Jewish body in particular? And is the "Jewish body" as much a concept constructed over the course of centuries by Jews and non-Jews alike as it is a physical reality? To comprehend the notion and existence of a Jewish body, he contends, one needs to look both at the images and traits that have been ascribed to Jews by themselves and others, and to the specific bodily practices that have played an important role in creating the identity of a religious and cultural community. Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, often for anti-Jewish purposes. He examines the techniques for caring for the body that Jews acquire in childhood from parents and authority figures and how these have changed over the course of a more than 2000-year history, most of it spent in exile. From consideration of traditional body stereotypes, such as the so-called Jewish nose, to matters of gender and sexuality, sickness and health, and the inevitable end of the body in death, The Jewish Body explores the historical foundations of the human physis in all its aspects.

Author : Sally Dwyer-McNulty
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146961409X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Threads written by Sally Dwyer-McNulty and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism