A collection of essays written by scholars invited to the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003-2004.
Anthropology, history, and the remaking of Jewish studies / Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow
"How do you know that I am a Jew?" : authority, cultural identity, and the shaping of postwar American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell
Rabbis and their (in)famous magic : classical foundations, medieval and early modern reverberations / J. H. Chajes
Dreamers in paradise : the rise and fall of a new holy site in Beit She'an, Israel / Yoram Bilu
Words, images, and magic : the protection of the bride and bridegroom in Jewish marriage contracts / Shalom Sabar
The dislocation of the temple vessels : mobile sanctity and rabbinic rhetorics of space / Ra'anan S. Boustan
Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe
Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz
The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel
Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. Baumgarten and Marina Rustow
In the path of our fathers : on tradition and time from Jerusalem to Babylonia and beyond / Sylvie Anne Goldberg
Prayer, literacy, and literary memory in the Jewish communities of medieval Europe / Ephraim Kanarfogel
A temple in your kitchen : hafrashat @hallah-the rebirth of a forgotten ritual as a public ceremony / Tamar El-Or
Judaism and the idea of ancient ritual theory / Michael D. Swartz
Toward an integrative approach in Jewish studies : a view from anthropology / Harvey E. Goldberg.
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Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history : authority, diaspora, tradition. ISBN 9780812243031. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
