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Purim Masquerade
Author: Samara Q. KleinThe Politics of Purim
Author: Jo CarruthersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 056769187X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers explores carnival and synagogue practices, the purimshpiln (Purim's own dramatic genre), illuminated Esther scrolls, as well as artworks by Botticelli, Millais and Jan Steen. The complex and astute interrogation of political life in such festival and artworks is analysed through theories of sovereignty, law, precarity and hospitality by key political thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière. Carruthers considers different motifs of boundary conservation and dissolution, as a means of contemplating the political implications of Purim and the Esther story for diaspora politics. How is sovereignty aspired to and attained by marginalized and threatened communities? How can one respond to the ethical call of hospitality to relax sovereign boundaries whilst protecting and celebrating that which is exceptional? The practice of giving gifts, mishloach manos, offers a model of hospitality that together with Purim's profane impulse is epitomized in the final chapter's discussion of a 2018 Brooklyn purimshpil, that offers a riotous ridiculing of white supremacist rhetoric, norms of domination, capitalist inequalities, modern slavery and ablest identities and assumptions.
When It's Purim
Author: Edie Stoltz ZolkowerPublisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
ISBN: 0822589478
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray a group of forest animal friends making hamentaschen cookies to give as gifts on Purim.
The Jewish Festivals
Author: Hayyim SchaussPublisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805209379
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Why is the Jewish New Year designated on the Jewish calendar as the first day of the seventh month, and not of the first month? Why do women cover their eyes when reciting the blessing over the Sabbath candles? How did the Seder originate? Does the Book of Esther, read on Purim, mirror any real historical events? Long considered a classic, The Jewish Festivals provides a rich and charming account of the origins, development, and symbolism of the Jewish holidays, and of the diverse rituals, prayers, ceremonial objects, and special foods that have been used throughout history and around the world to celebrate them. Drawing upon a wealth of knowledge of Jewish folkways and customs, Hayyim Schauss shows how these holidays evolved in meaning and importance, depending on the contemporary needs of those who observed them. Written with passion and warmth, this book will infuse your own experience of the holidays with extra meaning and delight.
The Menorah
Author: A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice
Author: Isaac KleinPublisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780873340045
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
On the Sabbath, calling women to the Torah, and counting them in the minyan.
Fucus
Author: Yoël L. ArbeitmanPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902723552X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
This is a memorial volume for Albert Ehrman. The contributions of this Gedenkschrift testify to his scholarly excellence in the field of Judaic-Semitic lexicography and etymology, and do full justice to the richness and thought inspiring qualities of his publications. Besides the papers in honour of Ehrman the volume contains four reprints of the Aramaic 'Fucus, Red Lichen', and a full bibliography of the works of Albert Ehrman.
Celebrating the Jewish Year
Author: Paul SteinbergPublisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 082760842X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Offers prayers, sources, rituals, and stories to help understand and celebrate the Jewish holidays.
Beginning Anew
Author: Gail Twersky ReimerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684826879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Provides an anthology of women's spiritual writing for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Defenders of the Faith
Author: Samuel C. HeilmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520354494
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
In this first in-depth portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel today, Samuel Heilman introduces a community that to many may seem to be the very embodiment of the Jewish past. To outsiders who stumble upon these neighborhoods and find bearded men in caftans, children with earlocks, and women in long dresses, black kerchiefs and stockings, it may appear that these people still hold fast to every tradition while turning their backs to the contemporary world. But rather than being a relic from the past, ultra-Orthodox Jews, or haredim, are very much part of the contemporary landscape and are playing an increasingly prominent role in the Jewish world and in Israeli politics. Defenders of the Faith takes us inside the world of this contemporary fundamentalist community, its lifestyle and mores, including education, religious practices and beliefs, sexual ethics, and marriage. Heilman explores the reasons why this group is more militant and extreme than its pre-Holocaust brethren, and provides insight into the worldview of this small but influential sector of modern Jewry.