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Book SynopsisExplores the role of race and consumer culture in attracting urban congregants to an evangelical church The Urban Church Imagined illuminates the dynamics surrounding white urban evangelical congregations' approaches to organizational vitality and diversifying membership. Many evangelical churches are moving to urban, downtown areas to build their congregations and attract younger, millennial members. The urban environment fosters two expectations. First, a deep familiarity and reverence for popular consumer culture, and second, the presence of racial diversity. Church leaders use these ideas when they imagine what a city church should look like, but they must balance that with what it actually takes to make this happen. In part, racial diversity is seen as key to urban churches presenting themselves as in touch and authentic. Yet, in an effort to seduce religious consumers, church leaders often and inadvertently end up reproducing racial and economic inequality, an unexpected contradiTrade Review"The authors demonstrate how the racialized urban imaginary affects the religious practices, organizations, and identity of this recently formed congregation, and the complex interactions among race, religion, class, gender, cultural consumption, and the city. The discussion revolves around the key concepts of racialized urban imaginary, managed diversity, and racial utility. A significant contribution to religion, race, and urban studies." * Choice *"In The Urban Church Imagined, Jessica M. Barron and Rhys H. Williams examine the 'dueling imaginations' posited by Downtown Churchs [DC] suburban-based leaders and city-based congregants as their new congregation negotiates racial, class, and gender boundaries. The depth and accessibility of this book make it an excellent read for scholars, students, and religious leaders interested in the sociology of religion, race theory, and/or the urban landscape." * Reading Religion *"The Urban Church Imagined offers a compelling insight on the organizational practices of white-led religious institutions as they attempt to interact with diversity … they offer a provocative salvo in furthering our understanding of the shallow adaptations of diversity and inclusion occurring in white evangelical organizations throughout the United States. In an era where racial coding and antagonism continue to resonate throughout social and political discourse, Barron and Williams have given good cause for further examination of the intersection of race, religion, and the city." -- American Journal of Sociology"This book serves as a useful guide for how churches may approach attracting new members in a period of increasing racial diversity and declining worship attendance." -- Review of Religious Research"The Urban Church Imagined sheds light on this problematic dichotomy of the desire to reach the urban population and to be relevant in the racially diverse context of urban areas on the one hand, and the implicit racism, sexism, and classism undergirding their history on the other hand … The critical perspective offered in the book has a massive potential as a working tool for professionals involved in urban ministry, both lay and ordained … Overall, The Urban Church Imagined is a practical, insightful, and well written exploration of the challenges of social aspects in urban ministry that carries massive potential for the modern church as a whole, both the urban and the rural, both the diverse and the homogeneous." -- Anglican Theological Review"The City Imagined expertly takes us into the heart of 'new urban' Christianity, a Christianity reflecting a renewed interest in the city, but a city highly constructed to serve idealized purposes. With richness of analysis and deep insight, we learn about the very heart of new America--thegood, the bad, and the ugly. A fascinating read." -- Michael O. Emerson,Provost and Professor, North Park University and author of Blacks and Whites in Christian America"Ambitious evangelicals want to reach the citya dynamic place filled with connotations of fashion, power, and cosmopolitanism. But the desire of evangelical churches to be relevant and racially diverse is colliding with the implicit racism still underlying their history. Drawing from observations in a multiracial evangelical church in downtown Chicago, The Urban Church Imagined reveals how modern evangelicalism is deeply entangled in the desire for contemporary relevance while persisting in racial prejudices and outright discrimination." -- Gerardo Marti,author of A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church"Barron and her coauthor, Rhys H. Williams, closely observe church members and leaders through interviews and ethnographic work. In doing so, they establish a better understanding of the links between city culture and modern evangelicalism that make Downtown Church appealing to its young members who desire an interracial and hip churchgoing experience." * Religious Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisA new world of religious satire illuminated through the layers of religion and humor that make up the The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy. Drawing on the worldviews put forth by three wildly popular animated shows The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy David Feltmate demonstrates how ideas about religion's proper place in American society are communicated through comedy. The book includes discussion of a wide range of American religions, including Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Native American Religions, New Religious Movements, Spirituality, Hinduism, and Atheism. Along the way, readers are shown that jokes about religion are influential tools for teaching viewers how to interpret and judge religious people and institutions. Feltmate, develops a picture of how each show understands and communicates what constitutes good religious practice as well as which traditions they seek to exclude on the basis of race and ethnicity, stupidity, or danger.Trade ReviewDrawn to the Gods is a thorough and comprehensive study that is grounded in solid research methodologies and linked to relevant theories and secondary literature. Feltmates arguments are compelling and insightful, and even quite lively--I love moving from Durkheim on the sacred to sacredness in Family Guy. Feltmate is quite adept at unpacking dense ideas about the sociology of religion and applying them to cultural studies in a rich, illuminating way. -- Gary Laderman,Goodrich C. White Professor of American Religious History and Cultures, Emory UniversityDavid Feltmates book on religion, satire, and popular culture must be regarded a significant, fascinating, and also thought-provoking scholarly introduction into the world of contemporary religious popular culture and its study[It] is a must read for all researchers of contemporary religious communication and popular culture. -- Johan Bastubacka,Associate Professor of Theology, University of HelsinkiWithout a doubt, I will use this delightful, well-researched, well-crafted monograph in my media, religion, and popular culture courses. David Feltmates book is fun, but it is serious fun. He maps out how humor and satire, as delivered through media platforms, teach audiences how to think about religion in an American cultural context. In so doing, he makes a compelling case for why we need to take humor seriously, and why the vital realm of popular culture is not simply important but indeed central to our research in the study of religion. -- Sarah McFarland Taylor,Professor of Religion, Media and Culture, Northwestern UniversityFeltmate wisely focuses on three popular television programs that not only overflow with religious references but also often humorously subvert accepted ideas about religious beliefs and practices. Engaging in close readings of over 200 episodes of these shows, Feltmate explores the ways that they satirically question sacred texts, cults, Jesus, sacred sites, and various world religions. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisHe destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the walls of the academic ghetto in which the study of Jewish American literature often seems to be contained: alienated from fields like comparative ethnicity studies, American studies, and multicultural studies; suffering from the unwillingness of Jewish Studies to accept critical literary studies as a legitimate part of its project; and so often refusing itself to engage in self-critique. The Impossible Jew interrogates how the concept of identity is critically put to work by identity-based literary study. Through readings of key authors from across the canon of Jewish American literature and cultureincluding Abraham Cahan, the New York Intellectuals, Philip Roth, and Jonathan Safran FoerBenTrade Review"Brilliant, original, and funny, this is the book many of us in Jewish and literary studies have been waiting for all these years: an absolutely convincing Jewish-literary-historical account of the impossibility of Jewish literary history and a stirring diagnosis of identity studies more broadly.The Impossible Jewwill be a paradigm-shifting book." -- Daniel Itzkovitz,co-editor of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question"This is a profound and articulate work of high theory. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Impossible Jewis a brilliant and valuable contribution to the same field of research Schreier wishes to dismantle, or at least disrupt. It foregrounds a broader, unceasing preoccupation with Jewish identity as an undetermined element scholars will never put to rest." * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The School of Criticism I Wouldn't Be Caught Dead In: A Polemic on Theorizing the Field 1 1. Toward a Critical Semitism: On Not Answering the Jewish Question in Literary Studies 22 2. Against the Dialectic of Nation: Abraham Cahan and Desire's Spectral Jew 69 3. The Negative Desire of Jewish Representation; or, Why Were the New York Intellectuals Jewish? 95 4. Why Jews Aren't Normal: The Unrepresentable Future of Philip Roth's The Counterlife 149 5. 9/11's Stealthy Jews: Jonathan Safran Foer and the Irrepresentation of Identity 185 Conclusion: Minority Report 214 Notes 221 Bibliography 249 Index 259 About the Author 270

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Book SynopsisFor a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization of Israel became particularly prominent in 1967, when its military prowess shocked a Jewish world still reeling from the sense of powerlessness dramatized by the Holocaust. That imagery has grown ever more visible, with Israel's supporters idealizing its technological achievements and its opponents attributing almost every problem in the region, if not beyond, to its imperialistic aspirations.The contradictions and competing views of modern Israel are the subject of this book. There is much to consider about modern Israel besides the Middle East conflict. Over the past generation, a substantial body of scholarship has explored numerous aspects of the country, including its approacheTrade ReviewLike any complicated country, Israel is a land of myths and realities. In this volume, Frederick Greenspahn has assembled an outstanding collection of essays that will help readers to distinguish between the two. Israel has changed enormously over its sixty-some years of statehood. As the chapters demonstrate, many images inherited from the past, frozen into the memories of people who pay attention to the country, no longer conform to everyday reality. This volume is a good place to start in making sense of Israel as it is, not as an idealized or mythical entity but as a country coping with an astonishing array of social challenges. -- Kenneth D. Wald,Samuel R. "Bud" Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture & Society, University of FloridaOne of the best new anthologies in the burgeoning field of Israel Studies. For both those unfamiliar with the interdisciplinary study of modern Israel, and those more versed in this scholarship, the books authorsall leading researchers in the fieldoffer a wealth of information and insight on Israels diverse population, its contested national and sub-national identities, and its transforming public and private spaces. . . . A refreshing volume that steers clear of the stale partisan polemics that characterizes much of the current discourse on Israel, this work offers a rich, complex, and deep grasp of Israels multifaceted society and its relationship with both state institutions and the Jewish diaspora. -- Miriam Elman,Syracuse University

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism drawing on primary sources and new methodsOver the past generation, several major findings and methodological innovations have led scholars to reevaluate the foundation of Judaism. The Dead Sea Scrolls were the most famous, but other materials have further altered our understanding of Judaism's development after the Biblical era.This volume explores some of the latest clues into how early Judaism took shape, from the invention of rabbis to the parting of Judaism and Christianity, to whether ancient Jews considered themselves a nation. Rather than having simply evolved, normative Judaism is now understood to be the result of one approach having achieved prominence over many others, competing for acceptance in the wake of the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in the year 70 CE. This new understanding has implications for how we think about Judaism today, as the collapse of rabbinic authority is leading to tTrade ReviewA spectacular round-up of superb authors, all of them expert in fields relating to the transition centuries between the Hebrew Bible and the emergence of Judaism -- and Christianity too. One after another, the essays provide the state of the question: what scholars are saying now, and why. If there is such a thing as a scholarly page-turner, this is it, a rewarding synopsis of scholarship on pretty much every page -- Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman,Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual, Hebrew Union CollegeOutstanding scholars of early Judaism share cutting edge research and new insights in this highly readable anthology. The succinct and accessible essays foreground the varieties of Judaisms and Jewish writings in late ancient times, the separation of Christianity from its Jewish origins, evolving constructions of gender, the development of the synagogue and its liturgy, and the consolidation of rabbinic Judaism in clear and compelling ways. This volume is sure to be welcomed by teachers of formative Judaism and Christianity, their students, and interested general readers. -- Judith R. Baskin,Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities, University of Oregon

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Book SynopsisHow Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with food teach us about Christianity, Islam, and religion itself? Can food shape the future of Judaism? Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined, both historically and today. It also grapples with the charged ethical debates about how food choices reflect competing Jewish values about community, animals, the natural world and the very meaning of being human. Encompassing historical, ethnographic, and theoretical viewpoints, Trade Review"An accessible, detailed look at all aspects of Jewish food ... This rich, revealing collection will appeal to scholars and foodies alike." * Publishers Weekly *"A fascinating look at food from a variety of different angles … the essays were all well written and absorbing. Anyone interested in food studies or Jewish history will want to read this book." * Jewish World *"Anyone interested in Jewish food who reads these seven essays will emerge with plenty of points for further discussion [...] As a broad-based collection touching on many of the subspecialties, it should provide genuine 'food for thought' leading to further readings on specific topics." * Tradition *"Feasting and Fasting is a fascinating look at food from a variety of different angles… Anyone interested in food studies or Jewish history will want to read this book." * The Reporter *"This wide-ranging discussion of the history, philosophy, religion, and origins of Jewish culinary traditions should be in any serious culinary and Jewish history collection." * Midwest Review of Books *"Runs the gamut from biblical to contemporary Jewish food ways and includes both historical and ethical aspects of what, how, and why Jews eat." * Leah Hochman, University of Southern California *"Gathers a dream team of Jewish studies scholars whothank you!raise their heads from texts to focus on the meanings, rituals, conflicts, power dynamics, and pleasures of the material of food in the Jewish diaspora. . . . The book that follows considers the diversity of complex and often fraught relationships among food, Jews, and Others, across time and place, from biblical to supermarket aisle. It serves to initiate scholars of Judaism in the world of food studies and, for food scholars, richly informs studies of Jewish foodways." * Jonathan Deutsch, Co-author of Jewish American Food Culture *"Drawing on a stellar cast of contributors, Feasting and Fasting combines an unparalleled overview of Jewish food practices from Antiquity to Agriprocessors with boundary-breaking essays on Jewish foods and foodways. This remarkable volume will excite scholars and be invaluable for adoption in Jewish history and food studies courses.”" * Roger Horowitz, author of Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food *"A fascinating account of the history of Jewish food, within and outside of dietary laws. . . . Crisco is for Jews? Peanut oil caused such debates? Who knew. This book is a great read." * Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor and Professor Emerita, New York University *"This is a spectacular set of essays on a wide and eclectic range of topics. They're accessible to a wide audience and further strengthen the evolving conversation about the nature of the interaction between Jewish life, food, and the wider world we live in." * Nigel Savage, CEO, Hazon: The Jewish Lab for Sustainability *"The three courses of this book — history, culture, and ethics — are a tremendous feast, to be savored for a long time to come!" * Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, American Jewish University *

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Book SynopsisAmong the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. These children, of every age and nationality, were without parents or legal guardians and many were without clear identities.  This situation posed serious practical, legal, ethical, and political problems for the agencies responsible for their care.In the Children’s Best Interests, by Lynne Taylor, is the first work to delve deeply into the records of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organization (IRO) and reveal the heated battles that erupted amongst the various entities (military, governments, and NGOs) responsible for their care and disposition. The bitter debates focused on such issues as whether a child could be adopted, what to do with illegitimate and abandoned children, and who could assume the role of guardian. The inconclusive nationality of theTrade Review"Taylor is able to build upon the considerable existing literature on refugees and the American Occupation of Germany. However, her study is most welcome since child refugees are understudied in both…Taylor also breaks important new ground by describing the child search activities in Germany of UNRAA and the IRO, and her well chosen case studies are among the most interesting and gripping parts of her book." -- Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College * European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018 *"This is less a history of unaccompanied children and more so an investigation of the shifting ground of child welfare policies. In ten fine-grained chapters, readers follow the relief efforts of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and International Refugee Organization in the immediate postwar period, when various national governments laid claim to displaced children and youth." -- Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 12 no 2, Spring 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary Introduction 1. UNRRA Gets Started a/ Initial Planning b/ UNRRA's Marginalization c/ UNRRA's Mobilization 2. Unaccompanied Children a/ Temporary Care Programs b/ Child Search - Trial 3. Child Search Launched a/ Child Search - Germanization discovered b/ Child Search - Commitment 4. Legal Complications a/ Mascots b/ Illegitimacy and abandonment c/ Age of majority d/ Adoption e/ Guardianship 5. The Infiltrees a/ The Context b/ Infiltree Children 6. Obstacle: Jugendamt a/The Landesjugendamt and the vexacious matter of 'removal' 7. Obstacle: The ACA Directive 8. Child Search under the IRO a/ Child Search Reprieved b/ Limited Registration Plan c/ The Evolving Debate: Legal Security 9. The Residual a/ Resettlement b/ Children's Courts c/ Transfer into the German economy d/ Closure of the IRO 10. Nationality a/ The Jewish Displaced Persons b/ The Baltic Displaced Persons c/ The Yugoslavian Displaced Persons d/ The Polish Displaced Persons e/ The Ukrainian Displaced Persons f/ The Stateless and the Doubtful or Undetermined g/ Observations 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBy focusing on the humane aspects of social palliation, this book foregrounds sacred traditions to illustrate their potential to evoke conversations across socio-political boundaries on what it is like to live and die in the contemporary world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction 1. Research Context 2. Storied Lives 3. Precarity as a Resource for Life and Death 4. Re-Making a Home in the Diaspora 5. Negotiating Deep Divides: Foregrounding Social Palliation Conclusion: Deep-level Conversations Notes References Appendix

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that tensions between Jewish and Christian doctrine may be lessened if texts are regarded as philosophical frameworks of exploration as opposed to ethical commitments.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Philosophy and Theology 2. God, Humans, and Nature 3. Humans and Nature 4. Philo and Plato 5. Maimonides and Aristotle 6. Kant’s Challenge to Theology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIf your relationship needs less oy and more joy, this is the book for you!Trade Review"If you are intermarried, have a family member or friend who is, or are interested in how intermarriage affects Jewish communities, this book has something to offer to you. The author’s optimism, good humour, and belief in each person’s capacity to find fulfillment will charm any reader willing to approach its important subject with an open mind." -- David Roytenberg * Canadian Jewish Record *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments  Introduction  A Acceptance  Action  Adam and Eve  Aggravation  Antisemitism  Assertiveness  A$$holes  Assimilation  Attentiveness  Attitude  B  B’shert  Backgrounds  Beauty  Belief, Behavior, Belonging (bonus: B. Mitzvah)   Bible  Blending  Borrowing  Bridges  C  Calm  Camp  Children (and bonus “C”—circumcision)   Communication/Chrismukkah Community  Compromise  Conversion  Cost  Creativity  Culture  D  Daily Life (tasks, what you want daily life to look like)  Dancing  Daring  Death  Definition  Destiny  Divorce  DIY  Dogma  Dreams  E  Eagerness  Eats  Education  Elation  Elevation  Emotion  Emotional Load  Energy/Excitement  Equality/Equity  The Everyday  F  Feelings/Fear  Fellowship  Festive Season  Fidelity  Forgiveness  Frankness  Freedom  Friendship  Fun  Future Planning  G  Garbage  Gefilte Fish  Giving  God  Goodness  Google  Grandchildren  Grief  Grudges/Grievances  Guilt  H  Happiness  Healing  Hearing  Helping  Holidays  Honoring  Hope  Hostility  Hosting  Hurting  I Ignorant  Important  Inclusivity/Inclusion (featuring InterfaithFamily.com)   Indivisibility  Industriousness  Insistence  Intensity  Invitations  Irritation  Isolation  J  Jazz  Jealousy  Jerks  Jesus  Jokes  Journey  Joy  Judaism/Jewishness  Juggling  Justice  K  Kaleidoscope  Kaput  Karma  Keva/kavannah  Kids  Kindness  Kings  Klunkiness  Knowledge  Kosher  L  Lean In  Learning  Legalities  Listening  Literature  Losing It  Loss and Letting Go  Love  Luggage  M  Marriage  Meaning  Mentsch  Mindfulness  Mistakes/Messes  Mixed  Moments  Money  Moses  Mystery  N  Nag  Nationhood  Needs versus Wants  Negativity/Naysaying  Negotiation  Never Say Never  No Nos  Nope   “Normal” Nuptials  O  Officiating  Ok  Openness  Opportunity  Oppression  Optimism  Ordained  Originality  Oscillation  Oxygen  P  Pandering  Parenting  Parents  Partnership  Passion  Paternalism  Patrilineal Descent  Poetry  Possibility  Principles  Q  Quagmires and Quandaries  Quality  Quantity  Quarrelling  Queer  Questioning  Quicksand  Quid Pro Quo  Quirks  Quotable  R  Reaching Out  Realism  Reason(ableness)  Reconnection  Relatives  Relativity  Renewal  Resilience  Respect  Rules  S  Sensitivity  Serendipity/Syncronicity  Sex/Sweetness/Softness  Sharing  Shavuot  Shopping - Stuff  Shopping - Synagogues  Silliness  Stifled  Struggling  T  Talk Therapy  Talmud  Teaching  Terminology  The Attic  Tikkun Olam  Tradition  Truth  Turtle Island  Tzedakah  U  Ugliness  Undercutting  Understanding  Unity  Universality  Unlearning  Unorthodox  Unpopular  Urgency  Utopia  V  Vacations  Values  Vantage Point/Viewpoint  Variability  Veils  Venting/Ventilation  Vicious Circles  Victories  Visibility  Vision  W  Wake up Calls  Wandering  Weddings  White Dresses  Whiteness  Wisdom  Wishlists  Wokeness  Wondering  Worldliness  X/Y  X Marks the Spot  Xenophobia  X-factor  Xmas  X-rays  Yearning  Yelling  Yiddish  Yom Kippur  You  Z  Zamboni  Zany  Zealous  Zero Tolerance  Zigzag (rhizome)  Zipper (seam)  Zodiac  Zone  Zoom  Zygote  Appendix: December Delights: Creating and Crushing Chrismukkah Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 2007, Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network. It told the story of a mosque community that worshiped in the basement of an Anglican church. It was a bona fide hit, running for six seasons and playing on networks all over the world.             Kyle Conway’s textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show’s creator, executive producers, writers,  and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television. Despite a desire to showcase the diversity of Muslims in Canada, the makers of Little Mosque had to erase visible signs of difference in order to reach a broad audience. This paradox of ‘saleable diversity’ challenges conventional ideas about the ways in which sitcoms integrate minorities into the mainstream. Trade Review‘A valuable study of media and multiculturalism. Highly recommended.’ -- C.L. Clements * Choice Magazine vol 55:01:2017 *‘Conway provides a great deal for the scholar of religion….For those who want to understand the diversity of Muslims in North America; this offers a Canadian perspective that is often left out of the equation. We should certainly add Little Mosque on the Prairie to the list of key works on Muslims in media, television, and cinema.’ -- Kristen Petersen * Reading Religion – December 2017 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Muslims and Sitcoms in Post-9/11 North America 1. Sitcoms, Cultural Translation, and the Paradox of Saleable Diversity 2. Representation Between the Particular and the Universal 3. The Paradoxes of "Humanizing Muslims" 4. Saleable Diversity and International Audiences 5. Religion as Culture Versus Religion as Belief Conclusion. Identity and Difference in North American Sitcoms Notes References

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Book SynopsisAmong the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. These children, of every age and nationality, were without parents or legal guardians and many were without clear identities.  This situation posed serious practical, legal, ethical, and political problems for the agencies responsible for their care.In the Children’s Best Interests, by Lynne Taylor, is the first work to delve deeply into the records of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organization (IRO) and reveal the heated battles that erupted amongst the various entities (military, governments, and NGOs) responsible for their care and disposition. The bitter debates focused on such issues as whether a child could be adopted, what to do with illegitimate and abandoned children, and who could assume the role of guardian. The inconclusive nationality of theTrade Review"Taylor is able to build upon the considerable existing literature on refugees and the American Occupation of Germany. However, her study is most welcome since child refugees are understudied in both…Taylor also breaks important new ground by describing the child search activities in Germany of UNRAA and the IRO, and her well chosen case studies are among the most interesting and gripping parts of her book." -- Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College * European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018 *"This is less a history of unaccompanied children and more so an investigation of the shifting ground of child welfare policies. In ten fine-grained chapters, readers follow the relief efforts of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and International Refugee Organization in the immediate postwar period, when various national governments laid claim to displaced children and youth." -- Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 12 no 2, Spring 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary Introduction 1. UNRRA Gets Started a/ Initial Planning b/ UNRRA's Marginalization c/ UNRRA's Mobilization 2. Unaccompanied Children a/ Temporary Care Programs b/ Child Search - Trial 3. Child Search Launched a/ Child Search - Germanization discovered b/ Child Search - Commitment 4. Legal Complications a/ Mascots b/ Illegitimacy and abandonment c/ Age of majority d/ Adoption e/ Guardianship 5. The Infiltrees a/ The Context b/ Infiltree Children 6. Obstacle: Jugendamt a/The Landesjugendamt and the vexacious matter of 'removal' 7. Obstacle: The ACA Directive 8. Child Search under the IRO a/ Child Search Reprieved b/ Limited Registration Plan c/ The Evolving Debate: Legal Security 9. The Residual a/ Resettlement b/ Children's Courts c/ Transfer into the German economy d/ Closure of the IRO 10. Nationality a/ The Jewish Displaced Persons b/ The Baltic Displaced Persons c/ The Yugoslavian Displaced Persons d/ The Polish Displaced Persons e/ The Ukrainian Displaced Persons f/ The Stateless and the Doubtful or Undetermined g/ Observations 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant country for Jews in the diaspora, past or present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of home. Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries, examine Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada, analyse specific historical moments and literary texts, reflect deeply personal histories, and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to tTable of ContentsIntroduction. What Does It Mean to Ask the Question, “Has There Ever Been a Better Home for the Jews Than Canada?” David S. Koffman Section One. Comparisons: Canadian Jewries and Other Jewries, Canadian Jews and Other Canadians 1. A Privileged Diaspora: Canadian Jewry in Comparative Perspective Morton Weinfeld 2. Destination World Jewry: The United States versus the World Hasia R. Diner 3. “To Guarantee Their Own Self-Government in All Matters of Their National Life”: Ukrainians, Jews, and the Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism Jeffrey Veidlinger 4. Vilna on the St Lawrence: Montreal as the Would-Be Haven for Yiddish Culture Kalman Weiser 5. Jewish Education in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Perspective Randal F. Schnoor 6. The Unsettling of Canadian Jewish History: Towards a Tangled History of Jewish–Indigenous Encounters David S. Koffman Section Two. Case Studies: Historical Episodes, Literary Creations 7. Crossing in/to Canada: Canada as Point of Arrival in Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Mia Spiro 8. The “Nu World” of Toronto in Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors Ruth Panofsky 9. Nathan Phillips: The Election of Toronto’s First Jewish Mayor 147 Harold Troper 10. By the Rivers of the St Lawrence: The Montreal Jewish Community and Its Postmemory Ira Robinson 11. In from the Margins: Museums and Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience Richard Menkis Section Three. Reflections: Personal Stories, Language 12. Pictures of New Canadians: An Immigration Story for Our Time Norman Ravvin 13. Under Gentile Eyes: My Jewish Childhood in Hamilton, 1950–1967 Judith R. Baskin 14. Montreal and Canada through a Wider Lens: Confessions of a Canadian-American European Jewish Historian Lois C. Dubin 15. Forgetting and Forging: My Canadian Experience as a Moroccan Jew Yolande Cohen 16. Nothing Is Forever: Remembering the Centennial Jack Kugelmass 17. In der heym in kanade: A Survey on Yiddish Today Rebecca Margolis 18. Which Canada Are We Talking About? An English-Language Polemic about French in Canadian Jewish History Pierre Anctil Postscript. Thin Canadian Culture, Thick Jewish Life David Weinfeld Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhat is the relation of philosophy and theology? This question has been a matter of perennial concern in the history of Western thought. Written by one of the premier philosophers in the areas of Jewish ethics and interfaith issues between Judaism and Christianity, Athens and Jerusalem contends that philosophy and theology are not mutually exclusive. Based on the Gifford Lectures David Novak delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 2017, this book explores the commonalities and common concerns that exist between philosophy and theology on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions. Where are they different and where are they the same? And, how can they speak to one another?Table of ContentsPreface 1. Philosophy and Theology 2. God, Humans, and Nature 3. Humans and Nature 4. Philo and Plato 5. Maimonides and Aristotle 6. Kant’s Challenge to Theology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Palliation is a pioneering study on living and dying as articulated by first-generation Iranian and Ismaili Muslim communities in Canada. Using ethnographic narratives, Parin Dossa makes a case for a paradigm shift from palliative care to social palliation. Experiences of displacement and resettlement reveal that life and death must be understood as an integrated unit if we are to appreciate what it is like to be awakened to our human existence. In the wake of structural exclusion and systemic suffering, social palliation brings to light displaced persons’ endeavours to restore the integrity of life and death. Dossa highlights the point that death conjoined with life is embedded within the socio-cultural and spiritual experience. Here, a caring society is not perceived in fragments, as is the case with traditional institutional care or care offered during end-of-life. Rather, Dossa draws attention to an organic form of caring, illustrated through the trTable of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction 1. Research Context 2. Storied Lives 3. Precarity as a Resource for Life and Death 4. Re-Making a Home in the Diaspora 5. Negotiating Deep Divides: Foregrounding Social Palliation Conclusion: Deep-level Conversations Notes References Appendix

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Book SynopsisAfter the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient. She met the expectations for upper-middle-class women in Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, which included post-secondary education, marriage, and motherhood. While raising a family and supporting her husband’s academic career, she continued her formal education through part-time study and gradually began a journey tailored to herself as an individual. In her forties, she embarked on her own academic career, rising through the ranks to become a tenured full professor and chair of the department of occupational therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In There Was a Time for Everything, Friedland reflects on her life and the fact that over time she managed to have it all just not all at once. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prelude Growing Up 1. Tillie: A Mother’s Life and Early Death 2. Mike: A Father’s Enduring Presence 3. The Jolofsky Family: Keeping the Sabbath and More 4. Childhood and Adolescence: My Mid-Century Toronto 5. Daughter, Step-Daughter, Sister: Relationships Reconfigured Growing Together 6. Student/Wife/Worker: My Roles Begin to Multiply 7. Motherhood: While Living My Husband’s Life 8. Dean’s Wife: Plus Part-Time Work and Grad School 9. Variations on a Theme: Different Environments, Same Situations Still Growing 10. Academia: Tiptoeing into a New Life 11. Difficult Times: Family Trouble and Work Trouble 12. Big Fish, Little Pond: Director, Division of Occupational Therapy 13. Little Fish, Big Pond: Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy 14. Post Chair and Retirement: But Not Ready to Stop 15. From Some Darkness into Light 16. Last Chapter Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOn Stony Ground traces a generation of Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union to Manitoba, detailing their adaptation to a new land.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Russia and Canada: The Consequences of the First World War 2. Russländer Mennonites Find Homes 3. The Bases of Community 4. Re-establishing Institutions 5. Schools and Education 6. Debts, Depression, and a New Grunthal 7. Old and New World Politics 8. Conflicted Identities 9. The War Years 10. Post-War Prosperity 11. A United and Divided Community 12. Generational Succession and Transition 13. Becoming Canadian Conclusion Appendixes 1. Elim Congregation Statistics (Baptised Members / Families / Totals 1927–c.1980) 2. Agreement with the International Company over Land on East Reserve Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOn Stony Ground presents a historical ethnographic account of a generation of Mennonites from the Soviet Union who, following Russia’s revolution and civil war, immigrated to Manitoba during the 1920s. James Urry examines how they came to terms with a new land and with their new neighbours, including other Mennonites, Ukrainians, French Canadians, and Indigenous Peoples. The book discusses the impact of the Great Depression and how the immigrants struggled with their identity in Canada as Hitler and Stalin rose to power in Germany and the USSR. It reveals the immigrants’ desire to maintain their faith, language, and culture while encouraging their children to take advantage of an education conducted mainly in English. On Stony Ground explores how prosperity following the Second World War helped the immigrants to build a community in conjunction with others, including Mennonites and non-Mennonites, and to accept their new home in Canada.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Russia and Canada: The Consequences of the First World War 2. Russländer Mennonites Find Homes 3. The Bases of Community 4. Re-establishing Institutions 5. Schools and Education 6. Debts, Depression, and a New Grunthal 7. Old and New World Politics 8. Conflicted Identities 9. The War Years 10. Post-War Prosperity 11. A United and Divided Community 12. Generational Succession and Transition 13. Becoming Canadian Conclusion Appendixes 1. Elim Congregation Statistics (Baptised Members / Families / Totals 1927–c.1980) 2. Agreement with the International Company over Land on East Reserve Bibliography

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Book Synopsis'A word and an arrow are the same -- both deliver with speedy aim.' From this saying comes the title of this entertaining collection of lively and engaging adages, bons mots, maxims, and proverbs -- an attractive sampling of the accumulated wisdom of the past. The timeless Yiddish sayings in this volume -- some 1800 of them -- paint a verbal picture of the long and varied experience Jewish life in Eastern Europe and later in immigrant North America. They reflect religious, moral, and political concerns as well as the daily struggle for survival. They range from statements of the obvious to profound commentaries on subjects as varied as arranging a marriage, bearing and raising children, education them, earning a living, growing old, and dying. In her introduction Shirley Kumove provides a concise description of the Yidding language and its development, the historical and social context in which these folk sayings were created, and an explanation of folk sayings as a fo

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Book Synopsis'When the name "Hitler" is mentioned, nothing occurs to me' – so said Karl Kraus. For this leading Viennese Jewish critic and intellectual the touchstone of art was ethics. How could he be speechless in the face of a threat to all that ethics means?To answer this question, the author makes a detailed chronological study of Kraus's intellectual activity as reflected in his work on the theatre. The results are presented in five chapters, each dealing with a different 'mask' adopted by Kraus during the period 1892-1936. Grimstad considers not only theatre and drama criticism in Die Fackel and Kraus's dramatic writings, but also biographical data, to help uncover the rationale of his work. That rationale is the logic of the theatrical mode in which he lived and wrote. The stage was not only his subject matter, it determined what he would see and say. Grimstad argues that when Kraus wrote, his words were the speech of an 'actor' who was often infatuated with himself

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Book SynopsisIn photos and short biographies, Jewish Sports Legends introduces famous, and not so famous, Jewish sports greats throughout history. Trade Review“As a piece of reference material it is a fine accomplishment. It’s exhaustive research into a myriad of sports, and the accompanying biographies and pictures are done first class. . . . It is an education.”—Los Angeles Times“The impressive achievements of Jews in sports are well documented in this encyclopedic reference volume. . . . A first-rate account of Jews in sports since the end of the nineteenth century.”—Jerusalem Post“Any sports enthusiast, armchair or otherwise, will find this book a fascinating read. This is indeed a keepsake to read and hold for many years for those interested in sports of all ages.”—National Jewish Post and Opinion“It is the ultimate book for the serious sports fan.”—Jewish News“Jewish stars shine! The book should put to rest the notion that there are few great Jewish athletes. The book profiles the nearly 250 members of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.”—Washington Jewish Week“Libraries with a strong emphasis on sports collections may want to add this title to their collection.”—American Reference Books Annual“This encyclopedic and lavishly illustrated volume covers a dizzying array of sports. . . . I was amazed!”—Canadian Jewish NewsTable of ContentsForeword by Mark Spitz Preface by Joseph M. Siegman Acknowledgements Prologue by Dr. Uriel Sirnri 1. AUTO RACING Kenny Bernstein, United States Mauri Rose, United States Jody Scheckter, South Africa Sheliah Van Damm, Great Britain 2. BASEBALL Moe Berg, United States Harry Danning, United States Barney Dreyfuss, United States Sidney Gordon, United States Shawn Green, United States Henry "Hank" Greenberg, United States Ken Holtzman, United States Sanford "Sandy" Koufax, United States Mike Lieberthal, United States Marvin Miller, United States Charles "Buddy" Myer, United States Lipman Pike, United States Jimmie Reese, United States Al "Flip" Rosen, United States Al Schacht, United States Allan “Bud” Selig, United States Harry Simmons, Unaited States Steve Stone, United States Albert Von Tilzer, United States Kevin Youkilis, United States 3. BASKETBALL Arnold "Red" Auerbach, United States Sam Balter, United States Louis Bender, United States Senda Berenson, United States Harry Boykoff, United States Tal Brody, Israel Lawrence Brown, United States William “Bill” Davidson, United States Max Friedman, United States Harry Glickman, United States Julius Goldman, United States Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet Union Edward Gottlieb, United States Baruch Hagai, Israel Lester Harrison, United States Nat Holman, United States William "Red" Holzrnan, United States Rudy LaRusso, United States Harry Litwack, United States 1935-1936 Long Island University Basketball Team Donna Geils Orender, United States Orna Ostfeld, Israel Philadelphia SPHAs, United States Maurice Podoloff, United States Leonard Rosenbluth, United States Mendy Rudolph, United States Abe Saperstein, United States Adolph "Dolph" Schayes, United States Barney Sedran, United States Morris “Moe” Spahn, United States David Stern, United States Earl Strom, United States Sidney Tanenbaum, United States David “Pep” Tobey, United States Max Zaslofsky, United States 4. BILLIARDS Arthur Ruben, United States Michael Sigel, United States 5. BOWLING John Brunswick, United States Marshall Holman, United States Mortimer “Mort” Lindsey, United States Mark Roth, United States Louis Stein, United States Sylvia Wene (Martin), United States 6. BOXING Ray Arcel, United States Abe Attell, United States Monte Attell, United States Max Baer, United States Benny Bass, United States Jackie “Kid” Berg, Great Britain Samuel Berger, United States Jack Bernstein, United States Morris “Whitey” Bimstein Joe Choynski, United States Robert Cohen, France (Algeria) Dutch Sam (Samuel Elias), Great Britain Leone Efrati, Italy Jackie Fields, United States Charley Goldman, United States Abe Goldstein, United States Reuven “Ruby” Goldstein, United States Alphonse Halimi, France (Algeria) Harry Harris, United States Ben Jeby, United States Mike Jacobs, United States Louis "Kid" Kaplan, United States Solly Krieger, United States Benny Leonard, United States Battling Levinsky, United States Harry Lewis, United States Ted "Kid" Lewis, Great Britain Al McCoy, United States Daniel Mendoza, Great Britain Samuel Mosberg, United States Bob Olin, United States Victor "Young" Perez, Tunisia Charley Phil Rosenberg, United States Maxie Rosenbloom, United States Barney Ross, United States Corporal Izzy Schwartz, United States Eric Seelig, Germany Al Singer, United States Jack Solomons, Great Britain Lew Tendler, United States Gyula Torok, Hungary Irving Underman, Canada Matt Wells, Great Britain Young Dutch Sam, Great Britain 7. CANOEING Leonid Geishtor, Russia Myriam Fox Jerusalmi, France 8. CONTRIBUTORS Jehoshua Alouf, Israel Robert Atlasz, Germany/Israel Baruch Bagg, Israel Richard Blum, Germany Alfred Brull, Hungary Haskell Cohen, United States Lajor Domeny-Deutsch, Hungary Pierre Gildesgame, Great Britain Emmanuel Gill, Israel Chaim Glovinsky, Israel Arthur Abraham Gold, Great Britain Kenneth Gradon, Great Britain Sir Ludwig Guttmann, Germany/Great Britain Arthur Hanak, Israel Ben Hatskin, Canada Joseph Inbar, Israel Ferenc Kemeny, Hungary Dr. Herman Lellewer, Germany Ferenc Mezo, Hungary Zvi Nishri, Israel Charles Ornstein, Unted States Emmanuel Simon, Israel Dr. Uriel Simri, Israel Arthur Takac, Yugoslavia Chaim Wein, Israel Joseph Yekutieli, Israel Aviezer Yellin, Israel Paul Ziffren, United States Harold O. Zimman 9. CRICKET Aron "Ali" Bacher, South Africa 10. EQUESTRIAN Margie Goldstein Engle, United States Robert Dover, United States 11. FENCING Albert Axelrod, United States Daniel Bukants, United States Jeno Fuchs, Hungary Tamas Gabor, Hungary Janos Garay, Hungary Oszkar Gerde, Hungary Sandor Gombos, Hungary Sada Jacobson, United States Allan Jay, Great Britain Endre Kabos, Hungary Grigori Kriss, Soviet Union Alexandre Lippmann, France Mark Midler, Soviet Union Armand Mouyal, France Ivan Osiier, Denmark Attila Petschauer, Hungary Julia Jones Pugliese, United States Mark Rakita, Soviet Union Yakov Rylsky, Soviet Union Sergi Sharikov, Russia David Tyshler, Soviet Union Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet Union Lajos Werkner, Hungary 12. FIELD HOCKEY Carina Benninga, Netherlands 13. FIGURE SKATING / ICE DANCING Ilia Avenrbukh, Russia Ellen Burka, Canada Petra Burka, Canada Alain Calmat, France Sasha Cohen, United States Sarah Hughes, United States Gennadi Karponosov, Soviet Union Lily Kronberger, Hungary Emilia Rotter, Hungary Louis Rubenstein, Canada Irina Slutskaya, Russia Laszlo, Szollas, Hungary 14. FOOTBALL Joseph Alexander, United States Lyle Alzado, United States Harris Barton, United States Arthur “Bluey” Bluethenthal, United States Al Davis, United States Benny Friedman, United States Sid Gillman, United States Marshall Goldberg, United States Charles “Buckets” Goldenberg, United States Sid Halter, Canada Sigmund “Sig” Harris, United States Lew Hayman, Canada Mark Levyu, United States Benny Lom, United States Sid Luckman, United States Joseph Magidsohn, United States Ron Mix, United States Edward Newman, United States Harry Newman, United States 15. GOLF Amy Alcott, United States Herman Barron, United States 16. GYMNASTICS Valeri Belenki, Azerbaijan/Germany Alfred Flatow, Germany Gustav Felix Flatow, Germany Mitch Gaylord, United States Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet Union Abie Grossfeld, United States George Gulack, United States Agnes Keleti, Hungary Tatiana Lysenko, Soviet Union/Ukraine Netherlands’1928 Women’s Olympic Champions Alexandra “Aly” Raisman, United States Yelena Shushuvona, Soviet Union Kerri Strug, United States Galina Urbanovich, Soviet Union 17. HANDBALL Vic Hershkowitz, United States Jimmy Jacobs, United States Fred Lewis, United States Steve Sandler, United States 18. HORSE RACING Walter Blum, United States Robert “Bobby” Frankel, United States William “Willie” Harmatz, United States Hirsch Jacobs, United States Walter Miller, United States Georges Stern, France 19. ICE HOCKEY Garry Bettman, United States Hyman “Hy” Buller, Canada Nikolay Epshtein, Soviet Union Cecil "Cece" Hart, Canada Alfred Kuchevsky, Soviet Union Mathieu Schneider, United States 20. JUDO Yael Arad, Israel Rena Kanokogi (Rusty Glickman) Daniela Krukower, Argentina 21. LACROSSE Victor Ross, United States 22. MEDIA Jesse Abramson, United States Maury Allen, United States Mel Allen, United States Ira Berkow, United States Simon “Si” Burick, United States Murray Chass, United States Howard Cosell, United States Dan Daniel, United States Massimo Della Pergola, Italy Al Munro Elias, United States Red Fisher, United States Nat Fleischer, United States Marty Glickman, United States Al Greenberg, United States Bud Greenspan, United States Jerome Holtzman, United States Jerry Izenberg, United States Hank Kaplan, United States Max Kase, United States Leonard Koppett, United States A.J. Liebling, United States Willy Meisl, Germany & Great Britain Barney Nagler, United States Ben Olan, United States Murray Olderman, United States Bernard Postal, United States Shirley Povich, United States Joe Reichler, United States Harold Ribalow, United States Ed Sabol, United States Dick Schapp, United States Jesse Silver, United States Roy Silver, United States Bill Stern, United States Gyorgy Szepesi (Friedlander), Hungary Sam Taub, United States 23. RACQUETBALL Sheerman Greenfeld, Canada Marty Hogan, United States 24. ROWING Nathan Cohen, New Zealand Laszlo Fabian, Hungary Joe Jacobi, United States Allen Rosenberg, United States Leon Rottman, Romania Donald Spero, United States 25. RUGBY Aaron “Okey” Geffen O”The Boot”), South Africa Jonathan Kaplan, South Africa Sydney Nomis, South Africa Wilf Rosenberg, South Africa Albert Rosenfeld, Great Britain/Australia Joel Stransky, South Africa 26. SAILING Jo Aleh, New Zealand Zephania Carmal, Israel Gal Fridman, Israel Lee Korsitz, Israel Lydia Lazarov, Israel Walentin Mankin, Soviet Union 27. SOCCER Arthur Baar, Austria Jozsef Braun, Hungary Bela Guttmann, Hungary Hakoah.Vienna Club, Austria Kurt Lamm, United States Gyula Mandi, Hungary Hugo Meisl, Austria 28. SOFTBALL Harry “Coon” Rosen, United States 29. SPEED SKATING Irving Jaffee, United States 30. SURFING Shaun Tomson, South Africa 31. SWIMMING William Bachrach, United States Seymon Belits-Geiman, Russia Judith Deutsch, Austria Leo Donath, Hungary Charlotte Epstein, United States Anthony Ervin, United States Harry Getz, South Africa Alfred Hajos-Guttmann, Hungary Otto Herschmann, Austria Lenny Krayzelburg, United States Keren Leibovitch, Israel Jason Lezak, United States Alfred Nakache, France Paul Neumann, Austria/United States Marilyn Ramenofsky, United States Margalit Sonnenfeld, Israel Mark Spitz, United States Eva Szekely, Hungary Judit Temes, Hungary Dara Torres, United States Garrett Weber-Gale, United States Ben Wildman-Tobriner, United States Wallace “Wally” Wolf, United States 32. TABLE TENNIS Ruth Aarons, United States Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu, Romania Viktor Barna, Hungary Laszlo Bellack, Hungary Richard Bergmann, Austria & Great Britain Traute Kleinova, Czechoslovakia Erwin Kohn, Austria/Argentina Ivor Goldsmid Montagu, Great Britain Anna Sipos, Hungary Mikios Szabados, Hungary Leah Thall-Neuberger, United States Leah Thall-Sommer, United States 33. TENNIS Angela Buxton, Great Britain Pierre Darmon, France Umberto de Morpurgo, Italy Herb Flam, United States Ian Froman, South Africa Brian Gottfried, United States Jim Grabb, United States Ladislav Hecht, Czechoslovakia Gladys Heldman, United States Julie Heldman, United States Ilana Kloss, South Africa Zsuzsa (Suzy) Kormoczy, Hungary Harold Landesberg, United States William Lippy, United States Nicholas Massu, Chile Tom Okker, Netherlands Daniel Prenn, Germany & Great Britain Dick Savitt, United States Joseph Shane, United States Harold Solomon, United States Brian Teacher, United States Eliot Teltscher, United States 34. TRACK & FIELD Harold Abrahams, Great Britain Gerald Ashworth, United States Gretel Bergmann (Margaret Lambert), Germany Lillian Copeland, United States Milton Green, United States Gary Gubner, United States Lilli Henoch, Germany Harry D. Henshel, United States Maria ltkina, Soviet Union Elias Katz, Finland Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Poland Abel Kiviat, United States Shaul Ladany, Israel Henry Laskau, United States Fred Lebow, United States Fania Melnik, Soviet Union Laurence "Lon" Myers, United States Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine Myer Prinstein, United States Mel Rosen, United States Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld, Canada Ester Roth-Sachamarov, Israel Fred Schmertz, United States Sam Stoller, United States Allen Tolmich, United States 35. VOLLEYBALL Doug Beal, United States Adriana Behar, Brazil Arie Selinger, Israel Eugene Selznick, United States Hagai Zamir, Israel 35. WATER POLO Istvan Barta, Hungary Gyorgy Brody, Hungary Bela Komjadi, Hungary Bela Rajki-Reich, Hungary Miklos Sarkany, Hungary 37. WEIGHTLIFTING Isaac Berger, United States Ben Helfgott, Great Gritain Edward Lawrence Levy, Great Britain Grigori Novak, Soviet Union Frank Spellman, United States Oscar State, Great Britain Ben Weider, Canada Joe Weider, Canada 38. WRESTLING Boris Makovitch Gurevich, Soviet Union Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevitch, Soviet Union Nikolaus “Mickey” Hirschl, Austria Karoly Karpati, Hungary Fred Oberlander, Canada & Europe Yakiv Punkin, Ukraine Richard Weisz, Hungary Henry Wittenberg, United States 39. LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD Sam Sharrow – 1992 David Pincus – 1993 Karl Ribstein – 1994 Monty Hall – 1995 Yariv Oren – 1996 Alan Sherman – 1997 Moshe Rashkes – 1998 Fred Worms – 1999 Joseph Luttenberg – 2000 Robert Spivak – 2001 Uri Afek – 2002 Lester Fein – 2003 Shimon Mizrahi – 2004 Sidney Greenberg – 2005 Alex Gilady – 2006 Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer – 2007 Stephen Rubin – 2008 Michael Kevehazi – 2009 Moshe Theumim – 2010 Robert Levy – 2011 Michel Grun – 2012 William Steerman – 2013 Harry Swimmer – 2014 Robert Kraft – 2015 Dr. Uri Schaefer – 2016 Victor Vaisman - 2017 Joseph Siegman - 2018 Roy Salomon - 2019 40. PRESIDENT’S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Samuel P. Sporn – 2010 Teddy Kaplan – 2012 Reuven Heller – 2013 Zohar Sharon – 2013 Dr. Anita Shkedi – 2015 Arie Rosenzweig – 2016 Lenny Silverberg - 2017 41. About the Hall of Famer 42. Wingate Institute 43. Distinguished Authorities 44. Benefactors 45. Jewish Olympic Medalists by Dr. George Eisen 46. The Maccabiah Games 47. Munich 11

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Book Synopsis The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result of both these migrations and the new political and social realities they encountered. The stories in this volume examine the sometimes bewildering kaleidoscope of food experiences generated by new social contacts, trade, political revolutions, wars, and migrations, both voluntary and compelled. This panoramic history of Jewish food highlights its breadth and depth on a global scale from Renaissance Italy to the post–World War II era in Israel, Argentina, and the United States and critically examines the impact of food on Jewish lives and on the complex set of laws, practices, and procedures that constitutes the Jewish dietary system and regulates what can be eatenTrade Review"The authors of the articles assembled in Global Jewish Foodways: A History illustrate how Jewish food, identity, and history are fundamentally intertwined. They bring different approaches to distinct aspects of this rich and long-lived heritage. As the field of food studies continues to expand, this book will become essential reading. Its diverse chapters show the interdisciplinary nature involved in this research. This book is recommended for use in Jewish studies, Jewish folklore studies, and Jewish history courses, as well as in ethnic studies more generally."—Annette Fromm, Journal of Folklore Research"An excellent resource for courses on food and foodways, Jewish studies, anthropology, and history courses about areas throughout the world with diasporic populations."—E. Pappas, Choice"Global Jewish Foodways is an essay collection that explores how food has helped maintain boundaries for Jews and how those boundaries and their culinary markers have shifted across time and geography. . . . Global Jewish Foodways is also an engaging look at little known chapters in Jewish history, including the millennia-old communities of Iraq, whose existence was cut short after 1948."—David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express“Finally we have a book on Jewish food that excavates the culinary history of the world’s oldest diasporic people. Global Jewish Foodways is a path-breaking collection, the first to track the extraordinarily diverse practices of a minority for whom food serves as a center of their identity. It will immediately become a classic in Jewish studies courses, open up food studies to Jewish perspectives, and excite general readers who want to better understand what constitutes Jewish food.”—Roger Horowitz, director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library“While kosher foods are widely known for marking the Jewish people’s distinctiveness, this outstanding volume shows that food also has been a historical source of connection between diasporic Jews and their gentile neighbors around the world. An unrivaled mosaic of the rich, global diversity of Jewish cuisines.”—Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto Scarborough Research Excellence Faculty Scholar“Global Jewish Foodways is a significant contribution to the field of Jewish food studies. It offers a uniformly sophisticated and incisive collection of analyses of Jewish food in a broad range of modern global contexts by many well-known and up-and-coming scholars in Jewish food studies. It is informed by the most up-to-date critical discussions of ‘identity’ and food preferences and discourses about food as expressions of it.”—Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, professor of religion at Wheaton College Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Carlo Petrini Acknowledgments Introduction: Jewish Foodways in Food History and the Jewish Diasporic Experience Simone Cinotto and Hasia R. Diner Part 1. Crossing and Bridging Culinary Boundaries: Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptations of Jewish Food in the Encounter with the Non-Jewish Other 1. The Sausage in the Jews’ Pantry: Food and Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Italy Flora Cassen 2. Global Jewish Peddling and the Matter of Food Hasia R. Diner 3. Jews among Muslims: Culinary Contexts Nancy E. Berg Part 2. The Politics of Jewish Food: Culinary Articulations of Power, Identity, and the State 4. Mosaic or Melting Pot: The Transformation of Middle Eastern Jewish Foodways in Israel Ari Ariel 5. Soviet Jewish Foodways: Transformation through Detabooization Gennady Estraikh 6. The Embodied Republic: Colonial and Postcolonial French Sephardic Taste Joëlle Bahloul Part 3. The Kosherization of Jewish Food: Playing Out Religion, Taste, and Health in the Marketplace and Popular Culture 7. Appetite and Hunger: Discourses and Perceptions of Food among Eastern European Jews in the Interwar Years Rakefet Zalashik 8. The Battle against Guefilte Fish: Asserting Sephardi Culinary Repertoires among Argentine Jews in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Adriana Brodsky 9. Still Life: Performing National Identity in Israel and Palestine at the Intersection of Food and Art Yael Raviv Part 4. The Food of the Diaspora: The Global Identity, Memory, and History of Jewish Food 10. From the Comfort of Home to Exile: German Jews and Their Foodways Marion Kaplan 11. “To Jewish Daughters”: Recipes for American Jewish Life, 1901–1918 Annie Polland 12. Dining in the Dixie Diaspora: A Meeting of Region and Religion Marcie Cohen Ferris List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers’ March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements, violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran. Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain—and, arguably, torture—in examining a state that engenders love and loyalty among its non-European Jewish women citizens while simultaneously inflicting pain on them. Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel presents a model of bureaucracy as divine cosmology that is both lyrical and provocative. Lavie’s focus on the often-minimized Mizra?i population juxtaposed with the state’s monolithic culture suggests that Israeli bureaucracy is based on a theological notion that inserts the categoriesTrade Review“Thick, accusative, and critical, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel is indeed a must-read for all.”—Anne de Jong, American Anthropologist“Important and provocative. . . . Recommended to researchers, postgraduate students, and undergraduates who are interested in Israel/Palestine, political protest, discrimination, and the anthropology of the state.”—Tobias Kelly, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“Incredibly insightful conceptually but also powerful politically. It does not merely challenge conceptual frameworks and academic canons but actively undoes them through shifting and diverse modes of writing.”—Adi Kuntsman, Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies“Engaging and insightful. . . . The book makes an important contribution to the literature, demonstrating that throughout the history of Israel, the Jewish immigrants of European descent have retained their privileged socioeconomic position and maintained claims to cultural superiority over communities coming from Asia and the Middle East. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel is an important ethnography of Mizrahi women and an excellent addition to anthropology of Israel.”—Yulia Egorova, American Ethnologist“Lavie’s study is solid, scrupulously researched and documented and has the ring of truth that comes from the personal experience of a researcher who has had to live through her fieldwork situation in a manner that few anthropologists experience. . . . Lavie has created a text whose insights and analysis extend far beyond her admirable Israeli study.”—William O. Beeman, Anthropological Quarterly“Lavie raises important questions about victimhood and agency pertinent to the study of the subaltern. . . . This book is not just a unique contribution to understanding gender and race in state bureaucracy and the operations of nationalism in the Middle East; it will interest anyone studying the disenfranchised and their everyday life, something that almost always involves ‘bureaucratic torture.’ . . . Wrapped in the Flag of Israel exposes how inhumanity can be normalized and can thrive in any modern liberal democracy.”—Sealing Cheng, Asian Anthropology“Lavie’s meticulous ethnographic work and pointed theoretical analysis explain the hopelessness of social protest and problematize the concept of agency in the context of intra-Jewish conflict in Israel; in this Lavie also addresses the ramifications of Mizrahi marginalization on the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”—Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, Cultural Studies“Lavie illustrates how asking difficult, troubling questions that disturb taken-for-granted silences can be an important strategy of resistance. In doing so, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel offers theoretical and political insights that extend beyond Israel’s undeclared borders.”—Simona Sharoni, Journal of Palestine Studies“Lavie has written a brave and scholarly auto-ethnography using an extended case study method, of a social movement in contemporary Israel. . . . With theoretical sophistication and granular accounts of day-to-day struggles of her own and other single mothers’ efforts to survive and gain access to resources and entitlements as Israelis . . . This is a painful account well worth reading. Social workers from many nations who are involved in difficult macro- and mezzo-practice would find illuminating the many elements of social movement activity and peer-group support that Lavie characterizes and theorizes so powerfully.”—Barbara Levy Simon, Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work“At the crossroads between a coursebook, a piece of writing about life and a feminist manifesto, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel . . . [is] both an enlightening insight into Israeli intra-racism and an original and valuable connection between two seemingly unrelated concepts: bureaucracy and torture.”—Sorina Georgescu, HyperculturaTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration Introduction: Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Single Mothers “Reaganomics,” Ḥok HaHesderim, and the Oslo Boomtime The Hudna Knafonomics: Vicky and I On Ethnographic Data Wrapped in the Flag of Israel’s Bureaucracy: A Road Map Chapter 1. Left Is Right, Right Is Left: Zionism and Israel’s Single Mothers Ḥad Horit: Notes on the Hebrew Etymology of Single Motherhood The Typology of Israel’s Single Mothers On Zionism Why Mizraḥim Support the Right Wing Why Mizraḥi Feminists’ Hands Are Tied Chapter 2. Protesting and Belonging: When the Agency of Identity Politics Becomes Impossible Figurations of Agency Protesting and Belonging: An Argument in Six Parts Capturing and Conveying Elusive Bureaucratic Torture Chapter 3. Take 1: The GendeRace Essence of Bureaucratic Torture Classificatory Schemes of Bureaucratic Logic Negative Communitas: Bureaucracy’s “Tough Love” The Plus-Minus Model of Torture The Zone of Repulsion: Plus-Plus Relationships of Pain Documents as Implements of Torture Bureaucracy’s Essence: GendeRace Response to Bureaucracy: Bracketing Impossible Articulation, Impossible Agency Chapter 4. Take 2: Ideology, Welfare, and Single Mothers Chapter 5. Take 3: Diary of a Welfare Mother Chapter 6. The Price of National Security Knafoland—The End This Is Exactly What We Did Epilogue: Israel, Summer 2011 Afterword(s): Gaza 2014 and the Mizraḥi Predicament Bureaucratic Torture: When Agency Becomes Impossible Agency Torture One People One Heart: The War on Gaza 2014 The New Black Panthers, or HaLo Neḥmadim Ḥok HaHesderim 2014 Labor Hill B-Jamusin The Ḥamas Salary Fiasco Operation Brother’s Keeper The War on Gaza—Protective Edge Under the Smokescreen of War Elections 2015: The Center Moves Further to the Right The Mizraḥi Cultural Renaissance The Steady Drumbeat of Eternal Return Acknowledgments Notes Glossary of Hebrew, Arabic, and Yiddish Terms References Index

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Book Synopsis The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result of both these migrations and the new political and social realities they encountered. The stories in this volume examine the sometimes bewildering kaleidoscope of food experiences generated by new social contacts, trade, political revolutions, wars, and migrations, both voluntary and compelled. This panoramic history of Jewish food highlights its breadth and depth on a global scale from Renaissance Italy to the post–World War II era in Israel, Argentina, and the United States and critically examines the impact of food on Jewish lives and on the complex set of laws, practices, and procedures that constitutes the Jewish dietary system and regulates what can be eatenTrade Review"The authors of the articles assembled in Global Jewish Foodways: A History illustrate how Jewish food, identity, and history are fundamentally intertwined. They bring different approaches to distinct aspects of this rich and long-lived heritage. As the field of food studies continues to expand, this book will become essential reading. Its diverse chapters show the interdisciplinary nature involved in this research. This book is recommended for use in Jewish studies, Jewish folklore studies, and Jewish history courses, as well as in ethnic studies more generally."—Annette Fromm, Journal of Folklore Research"An excellent resource for courses on food and foodways, Jewish studies, anthropology, and history courses about areas throughout the world with diasporic populations."—E. Pappas, Choice"Global Jewish Foodways is an essay collection that explores how food has helped maintain boundaries for Jews and how those boundaries and their culinary markers have shifted across time and geography. . . . Global Jewish Foodways is also an engaging look at little known chapters in Jewish history, including the millennia-old communities of Iraq, whose existence was cut short after 1948."—David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express“Finally we have a book on Jewish food that excavates the culinary history of the world’s oldest diasporic people. Global Jewish Foodways is a path-breaking collection, the first to track the extraordinarily diverse practices of a minority for whom food serves as a center of their identity. It will immediately become a classic in Jewish studies courses, open up food studies to Jewish perspectives, and excite general readers who want to better understand what constitutes Jewish food.”—Roger Horowitz, director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library“While kosher foods are widely known for marking the Jewish people’s distinctiveness, this outstanding volume shows that food also has been a historical source of connection between diasporic Jews and their gentile neighbors around the world. An unrivaled mosaic of the rich, global diversity of Jewish cuisines.”—Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto Scarborough Research Excellence Faculty Scholar“Global Jewish Foodways is a significant contribution to the field of Jewish food studies. It offers a uniformly sophisticated and incisive collection of analyses of Jewish food in a broad range of modern global contexts by many well-known and up-and-coming scholars in Jewish food studies. It is informed by the most up-to-date critical discussions of ‘identity’ and food preferences and discourses about food as expressions of it.”—Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, professor of religion at Wheaton College Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Carlo Petrini Acknowledgments Introduction: Jewish Foodways in Food History and the Jewish Diasporic Experience Simone Cinotto and Hasia R. Diner Part 1. Crossing and Bridging Culinary Boundaries: Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptations of Jewish Food in the Encounter with the Non-Jewish Other 1. The Sausage in the Jews’ Pantry: Food and Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Italy Flora Cassen 2. Global Jewish Peddling and the Matter of Food Hasia R. Diner 3. Jews among Muslims: Culinary Contexts Nancy E. Berg Part 2. The Politics of Jewish Food: Culinary Articulations of Power, Identity, and the State 4. Mosaic or Melting Pot: The Transformation of Middle Eastern Jewish Foodways in Israel Ari Ariel 5. Soviet Jewish Foodways: Transformation through Detabooization Gennady Estraikh 6. The Embodied Republic: Colonial and Postcolonial French Sephardic Taste Joëlle Bahloul Part 3. The Kosherization of Jewish Food: Playing Out Religion, Taste, and Health in the Marketplace and Popular Culture 7. Appetite and Hunger: Discourses and Perceptions of Food among Eastern European Jews in the Interwar Years Rakefet Zalashik 8. The Battle against Guefilte Fish: Asserting Sephardi Culinary Repertoires among Argentine Jews in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Adriana Brodsky 9. Still Life: Performing National Identity in Israel and Palestine at the Intersection of Food and Art Yael Raviv Part 4. The Food of the Diaspora: The Global Identity, Memory, and History of Jewish Food 10. From the Comfort of Home to Exile: German Jews and Their Foodways Marion Kaplan 11. “To Jewish Daughters”: Recipes for American Jewish Life, 1901–1918 Annie Polland 12. Dining in the Dixie Diaspora: A Meeting of Region and Religion Marcie Cohen Ferris List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAfter the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be premature.Trade ReviewContesting Post-Racialism is a powerfully persuasive analysis of the ways that race still operates in the United States and South Africa. This book effectively dispels the notion that we now reside in a post-racial or post-apartheid society. The arguments represent perspectives that are theological and sociological, as well as ecclesial and communal. This book needs and deserves a wide readership."" - Curtiss Paul DeYoung, executive director of the Community Renewal Society and former professor of reconciliation studies, Bethel University""In light of the continuing systemic misdirection and misinformation around the world about post-racialism, so-called, there is an urgent need for prophetic truth-telling in the United States, South Africa, and wherever peoples of African descent are found. With critical acumen and refreshing candor, the contributors to this volume serve to remind us that the near permanence of racism in its most subtle and incendiary forms requires the need for people of vision and faith to fight on."" - Dr. Alton B. Pollard, dean and professor of religion and culture, Howard University School of Divinity

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Book SynopsisProvides a close reading of Rutu Modan's work and examines her role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing on archival research, Kevin Haworth traces the history of Israeli comics from its beginning in the 1930s, to the counterculture movement of the 1970s, to the burst of creativity that began in the 1990s and continues today.

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Book SynopsisHearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and other organizations. Julian Millie spent fourteen months sitting among listeners at such events, and he provides detailed contextual description of the everyday realities of Muslim listening as well as preaching. In describing the venues, the audience, and preachersmany of whom are womenhe reveals tensions between entertainment and traditional expressions of faith and moral rectitude. The sermonizers use in-jokes, double entendres, and mimicry in their expositions, playing on their audiences' emotions, triggering reactions from critics who accuse them of neglecting listeners' intellects. Millie focused specifically on the listening routines that enliven everyday life for MuslTrade ReviewA richly-textured and critically insightful ethnography of Islamic preaching in contemporary Indonesia.... [The book succeeds in] stimulating critical reflections on modes of cultural production and religious communication that are potentially important for scholars working on contemporary Muslim societies well beyond the borders of Indonesia. * Reading Religion *Offers much more than a thorough analysis of Islamic preaching, as it provides inspiring reflections on today's emerging Muslim publics that a readership interested in the development of Islamic societies generally will find highly relevant. * Anthropological Forum *Hearing Allah's Call is certainly an original, inspiring, and thought-provoking book and an important contribution to the study of Indonesia and the anthropology of Islam. It deserves a wide readership. * Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia *Currently, the nation with the most Muslims in the world is Indonesia, but it has drawn far less attention from scholars of Islam than it merits. Julian Millie's fascinating study of popular preaching is an invaluable contribution to this overlooked field. * The Journal of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transcription Introduction 1. Preaching Diversity in Bandung 2. The Unique Voice... and Its Travails 3. Preaching "without Performing" 4. The Languages of Preaching in the Islamic Public Sphere 5. The Listening Audience Laughs and Cries, the Writing Public Thinks 6. A Feminized Domain 7. Public Contest and the Pragmatics of Performance 8. Standing Up for Listening Conclusion Appendixes A. Wedding Sermon by Al-Jauhari B. Sunday Study Sermon by Shiddiq Amien C. Translation of Excerpt of Sermon by A. F. Ghazali Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn this landmark account, Nur Amali Ibrahim paints a nuanced, detailed portrait of students seeking to reconcile some of the major social forces that inflect everyday life across the Muslim world—Islam, liberalism, radicalism, and secularism—as they strive to both find and define their place in a fast-changing, democratizing nation. Ibrahim demonstrates the critical importance of scholarly attention in both anthropology and religious studies to this vibrant country—the world’s largest Muslim nation.?Daromir Rudnyckyj, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, and author of the award-winning Spiritual EconomiesImprovisational Islam is about novel and unexpected ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts.Nur Amali Ibrahim foregrounds two distinct autodidactic university student organizations, each Trade ReviewSituated in the body of work on Islam in Indonesia, Nur Amali's approach in Improvisational Islam is refreshing. Nur Amali uses a strong anthropological research method, conducting in-depth interviews with youths, participant observation and lengthy field research. * SOJOURN - Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. The Tremblingness of Youths 2. Religion Unleashed 3. Accounting for the Soul 4. Playing with Scriptures 5. From Moderate Indonesia to Indonistan Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this landmark account, Nur Amali Ibrahim paints a nuanced, detailed portrait of students seeking to reconcile some of the major social forces that inflect everyday life across the Muslim world—Islam, liberalism, radicalism, and secularism—as they strive to both find and define their place in a fast-changing, democratizing nation. Ibrahim demonstrates the critical importance of scholarly attention in both anthropology and religious studies to this vibrant country—the world’s largest Muslim nation.?Daromir Rudnyckyj, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, and author of the award-winning Spiritual EconomiesImprovisational Islam is about novel and unexpected ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts.Nur Amali Ibrahim foregrounds two distinct autodidactic university student organizations, each Trade ReviewSituated in the body of work on Islam in Indonesia, Nur Amali's approach in Improvisational Islam is refreshing. Nur Amali uses a strong anthropological research method, conducting in-depth interviews with youths, participant observation and lengthy field research. * SOJOURN - Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. The Tremblingness of Youths 2. Religion Unleashed 3. Accounting for the Soul 4. Playing with Scriptures 5. From Moderate Indonesia to Indonistan Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using more than two hundred interviews in Bangalore and Dubai, Brandon Vaidyanathan explains how and why global corporate professionals straddle conflicting moral orientations in the realms of work and religion. Seeking to place the spotlight on the role of religion in debates about the cultural consequences of capitalism, Vaidyanathan finds that an apprehensive individualism generated in global corporate workplaces is supported and sustained by a therapeutic individualism cultivated in evangelical-charismatic Catholicism.Mercenaries and Missionaries uncovers a symbiotic relationship between these individualisms and shows how this relationship unfolds in two global citiesDubai, in non-democratic UAE, which holds what is considered the world''s largest Catholic parish, and Bangalore, in democratic India, where the Catholic ChuTrade ReviewVaidyanathan's brilliant ethnography breaks ground in the study of capitalism in the Global South. * Choice *A fascinating portrait of a certain section of the transnational professional class. It provides an important and sensitive analysis of how such professionals, especially those from developing countries, struggle to integrate their Christian faith with their career ambitions. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *

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Book SynopsisThe Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago''s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin Zuckie the Bookie Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate''s Jewish wing.These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone''s criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago''s political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rulTrade ReviewWhen the story moves forward in time, Kraus focuses on Lenny Patrick, "the central figure in Chicago Jewish organized crime," who eventually became a cooperating witness whose testimony took down the syndicate * Publisher's Weekly *Included are rich depictions of the families and lone actors involved, the rules they were expected to play by — and how those characters and motivations intertwined with political intrigue. * Southern Jewish Living *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Connecting the Dots 1. The End, or Zukie's Bad Day 2. Beyond Scarface, A Kosher Capone for Maxwell Street 3. The Sunset of 1974: Lenny Patrcik's Changing World 4. Landing in Lawndale 5. Rising in the Ranks 6. Roots of the Lawndale Machine 7. Arvey's Balancing Act 8. Syndicate Hammer 9. Sizing Up the Outfit 10. Tentacles 11. When Scarface Met Rico 12. Lenny's Circus Turn

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Book SynopsisCultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari''a Imamate (19131958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Omansuch as old mosques and shari''a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological siteshave saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past. Oman''s expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals, shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized narrative. But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern demonstraTrade ReviewParticularly compelling is the book's attention to the ways the shift from premodern forms of governance premised upon certain kinds of Islamic ethical practice and engagement with the divine are reworked through this transition, with consequences for the social, political, and material worlds premised on these relations. This book offers many important insights, making it an excellent contribution to the anthropologies of Islam and the Middle East, the history of the Arabian Gulf, and critical scholarly perspectives on material heritage practices. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heritage Discourse and Its Alterities 1. Reform and Revolt through the Pen and the Sword 2. Nizwa Fort and the Dalla during the Imamate 3. Museum Effects 4. Ethics of History Making 5. Nizwa, City of Memories 6. Nizwa's Lasting Legacy of Slavery 7. The al-Lawati as a Historical Category Conclusion: Cultivating the Past

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Book SynopsisCultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari''a Imamate (19131958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Omansuch as old mosques and shari''a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological siteshave saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past. Oman''s expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals, shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized narrative. But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern demonstraTrade ReviewParticularly compelling is the book's attention to the ways the shift from premodern forms of governance premised upon certain kinds of Islamic ethical practice and engagement with the divine are reworked through this transition, with consequences for the social, political, and material worlds premised on these relations. This book offers many important insights, making it an excellent contribution to the anthropologies of Islam and the Middle East, the history of the Arabian Gulf, and critical scholarly perspectives on material heritage practices. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heritage Discourse and Its Alterities 1. Reform and Revolt through the Pen and the Sword 2. Nizwa Fort and the Dalla during the Imamate 3. Museum Effects 4. Ethics of History Making 5. Nizwa, City of Memories 6. Nizwa's Lasting Legacy of Slavery 7. The al-Lawati as a Historical Category Conclusion: Cultivating the Past

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn an homage to a space and time that have passed, but that remain as traces in the vivid depictions on display in this handsome and informative volume, Moore offers a love letter to photographers who looked past ideological doctrine (worker strikes and political protests are set aside) to teach viewers and to remind themselves how to regard their fellow New Yorkers with the dignity of concerned attentiveness. * Gotham Center *A stunningly perceptive narrative of the subject of Jewish street photographers. * Bill Aron *Table of ContentsPrologue: Reframing New York 1. Toward a New York Document 2. Looking 3. Letting Go 4. Going Out 5. Waiting 6. Talking 7. Selling Epilogue: A New York Family Album

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews shaped by religious identity. To highlight these commonalities, the co-editors invited a team of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine Muslim societies in comparative and interconnected ways. The result is a book that showcases ethics, education, architecture, the arts, modernization, political resistance, marriage, divorce, and death rituals. Using the insights and methods of historians, anthropologists, literary critics, art historians, political scientists, and sociologists, Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon that i

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Book SynopsisWritten in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed twice over—in the First World War and again in the Holocaust. Agnon's epic story cycle, however, focuses not on the particulars of destruction, but instead reimagines the daily lives of Buczacz's Jewish citizens, vividly preserving the vanished world of early modern Jewry. Ancestral Tales shows how this collection marks a critical juncture within the Agnon canon. Through close readings of the stories against a shifting historical backdrop, Alan Mintz presents a multilayered history of the town, along with insight into Agnon's fictional transformations. Mintz relates these narrative strategies to catastrophe literature from earlier periods of Jewish history, showing how Agnon's Buczacz is a literary achievement at once innovative in its form of remembrance and deeply rooted in Jewish tradition.Trade Review"This beautifully written book invites readers into Agnon's world, expanding our reading of Agnon's modernism with brilliant insights into his literary project, while conveying a vivid sense of the milieu and history of Buczacz. The result is both a crucial contribution to Agnon studies and a richly textured cultural history." -- Anne Golomb Hoffman * author of Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing *"This insightful, complex, and yet utterly accessible interpretation of the major stories that make up Agnon's unique history of Buczacz, Ancestral Tales will remain the key text for understanding Agnon's last endeavor and the universe contained within its covers. A tremendous accomplishment." -- Omer Bartov * author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: "I Am Building a City" chapter abstractThe origins of the project of writing a cycle of stories about Buczacz are presented in the story "The Sign," in which an Agnon-like narrator experiences a mystical visitation by a Jewish medieval poet who models literary creation as a way to memorialize the destroyed city. Although many of the stories were published in the author's lifetime, scant attention was paid to them then or when they were published in book form. Israeli culture had a conflicted relationship to the Holocaust, and there was little interest in literature devoted to the Old World life that Zionism had sought to replace. There has been a significant change in attitude since that time, and A City in Its Fullness has recently become the object of increasing critical attention. 1A Baedeker to Buczacz chapter abstractThe opening story of A City in Its Fullness is a myth of origins that presents the founding of Buczacz as an arrested attempt on the part of fervent Jews from the Rhineland Valley to journey to the Land of Israel. This story is compared with the historical record, which describes an economic emigration of Jews from central Poland in the sixteenth century into lands in the southeast newly colonized by Polish nobles. The Jewish community of Buczacz rebuilt itself after the Khmelnytskyi massacres of 1648 and the Tatar and Turkish incursions that followed. The community experienced relative prosperity and stability as a town owned by the Potocki family. The first book of A City in Its Fullness is devoted to the town's principle places and institutions in the form of a grand tour conducted for the reader, with attention given to both Jewish and gentile space. 2Inventing a Narrator chapter abstractWriting stories set in a period beyond modern memory presented Agnon with the challenge of a workable narrative premise. For this task Agnon gave up the autobiographical narrator that had been the mainstay of his earlier fiction and developed a unique narrator—actually, a set of variations on a single premise—who speaks as a believing Jew within the historical milieu of the stories. The narrator's views are aligned with the contemporary rabbinic elite and, like the leaders of Buczacz, skeptical of mysticism and Hasidism. His tone assumes the authority of the communal minute book, the pinkas; yet although impersonal, and without a recognizable identity, he uses the "I" in a garrulous and compunctious manner. This chapter describes how the stories communicate simultaneously with the implied traditional audience contemporary to the events and the modern audience reading the stories as they appeared in Haaretz and similar news journals. 3Worship and Danger: A Cantorial Triptych chapter abstractAgnon examines azzanim, the cantors or professional prayer leaders in the synagogue, not as employees of the community but as embodying the ideal of prayer as a vocation. This construction draws upon the office of the high priest in the ancient Temple service, the sacred poet of the Middle Ages, and the romantic artist, whose self-sacrifice on the altar of his art renders him a martyr. Discussing three stories about azzanim—about a young woman with a gift for sacred music who must keep her gift hidden; a azzan whose determination to serve the community without pay brings about his gruesome martyrdom; and a gifted azzan who pays for his amour-propre earlier in life by having to recluse himself from the profession—this chapter examines the stories' tragic realization that leading the community in true prayer inevitably leads to the danger of too close proximity to the holy. 4Rabbis and Scholars chapter abstractThe major novella at the heart of A City in Its Fullness asks whether it is possible to combine two kinds of rabbinic leadership: the pure scholar and the community rabbi. Whether the source is the Polish magnate or the Austrian government official, government interference in appointments to rabbinic seats is a factor that few Jewish communities can elude. The novella concerns Buczacz's failed quest to find a rabbi who is equal in all respects to the community's high regard for its own learning and piety. Because of the ineluctability of gentile interference, the story concludes that true Torah scholarship can almost never be realized by a rabbi beholden to the community. 5Jews and Poles chapter abstractUntil 1772, Buczacz, like many Polish towns, was owned outright by a Polish noble, who was the source of all law. In the social space between the Catholic land-owning Poles and the Orthodox Ruthenian/Ukrainian serfs, the Jews operated as merchants, shopkeepers, and craftsmen. Although the services provided by the Jews were economically critical to the Poles, the latter despised the former and knew little of their inner religious life. Two major stories imagine a set of circumstances in which these roles are reversed and two great magnates become dependent for their lives on Jews, one a great communal leader and the other a humble charcoal maker. The chapter examines how Agnon uses established historical information to create alternative history and reimagine a "corrected" relationship between the two communities. 6Austrian Mandates chapter abstractThe Austrian rule over Buczacz that came with the partition of Poland in 1772 brought far-reaching changes to Jewish life, especially during the first decades of imperial rule. One change was the imposition of a special tax on the candles Jews used for Sabbaths, holidays, and weddings. Agnon's general approach is to examine the corrupting effects of these measures within the Jewish community rather than between the community and the Austrian authorities. One major story concerns a thug named Feivush, who serves as an enforcer for a heartless tax farmer. Feivush is feared and reviled by his fellow Jews, but then he himself becomes a victim. Other tales focus on the marginalization of rabbinic courts under the Austrians, which allows the violence of the wealthy to go unchecked. 7Disappeared chapter abstractOne of the most hated measures imposed by the Austrians was conscription into the imperial army for long periods of service. To meet the quotas, Jewish communities offered inducements to the vagrant poor and forcibly recruited youth who were insufficiently religious. The story "Disappeared" concerns a blameless apprentice tailor named Dan, who is delivered to the army by the Buczacz community to protect its better-born youth. The story focuses on the community's apathy to the suffering of Dan's mother and his secret fiancée, as well as the role of literacy and letter writing in this changing society. On his way back to Buczacz after years of service, Dan falls into the hands of a Polish noblewoman who keeps him captive for several years. The story's sensational conclusion, in the form of this woman's diary, describes her sexual attraction to the ex-soldier and her victimization of him. 8Moments of Redemption chapter abstractThe depiction of the Buczacz Jewish community under Austrian rule is so negative that it threatens the very enterprise of A City in Its Fullness as a memorial project. To counterbalance this, at the end of the volume, Agnon explores redemption as both a theological and social construct. He locates the potential for redemption not within the rabbinic elite or communal leadership, but within the love of learning on the part of ordinary householders. In a story called "In a Single Moment," the unmarried status of an outstanding fifteen-year-old scholar is of great concern to his parents. During the climactic conclusion of the events of a single day, the boy weds a young woman who has been left under the uppah by an unscrupulously materialistic bridegroom. The joy that suddenly floods the community provides a moment of redemption, a brief but significant recoupment of the community's spiritual glory. Epilogue chapter abstractA City in Its Fullness represents an extraordinary instance of a major writer returning to the golden age of East European Jewry and reimagining it through the medium of modernist fiction. Although the stories are carefully set within the facts of their historical periods, Agnon sometimes arrogates to himself the freedom to "correct" the historical record by fashioning stories that accord to their Jewish subjects the dignity they deserved in their own time but did not receive.

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Book SynopsisThe city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish and Arab residents, however, reveal lives and nationalist sentiments far more complex. Twilight Nationalism shares the stories of ten of the city's elders—women and men, rich and poor, Muslims, Jews, and Christians—to radically deconstruct these national myths and challenge common understandings of belonging and alienation. Through the stories told at life's end, Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan illuminate how national affiliation ultimately gives way to existential circumstances. Similarities in lives prove to be shaped far more by socioeconomic class, age, and gender than national allegiance, and intersections between stories usher in a politics of existence in place of politics of identity. In offering the real stories individuals tell about themselves, this book reveals shared perspectives too long silenced and new understandings of local community previously lost in nationalist narratives.Trade Review"In Twilight Nationalism, Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan go far beyond standard narratives about Jaffa, where Jews, Muslims, and Christians have long shared the city. The authors break through the thicket of established notions and give us an alternative description. And they do so brilliantly."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions"Twilight Nationalism gives voice to ten elderly Palestinian survivors and Jewish immigrants from Jaffa who narrate and, indeed, analyze, how the burden of history and the tyranny of the nation fragmented the rhythms of their lives. Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan produced a multivocal elegy that is as profound as it is imaginative and nothing short of brilliant."—Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego, author of A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict"This groundbreaking book exposes the hidden gems of a binational city, that even indigenous Jaffans like myself tend to overlook."—Moussa Abou-Ramadan, University of Strasbourg, coauthor of Treatise of Comparative Islamic Law"InTwilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life's End,authors Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan offer an original and thought-provoking ethnographic study of nationalist identity in the "mixed" city of Jaffa...[W]hat their analysis does amply and sensitively show is the value of a relational and situational approach to the study of nationalist identities and discourses, and the importance of being attentive to different social, spatial, and temporal configurations in analyses of their import upon everyday lives."––Una McGahern, H-Nationalism"One of the strengths of this ethnography is the intimate humanity of the individuals who appear in it...Together, the historical breadth and personal depth of the life histories narrated in this book could offer rich teaching material for students interested in old age, memory, the intersection of identity, politics, and gender, the false dichotomy of collaboration versus resistance, and mixed cities in Israel/ Palestine."––Basma Fahoum, Review of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Toward Twilight Nationalism 1. Besieged Nationalism: Fakhri Jday and the Decline of the Elites 2. Worn-Out Nationalism: Rabbi Avraham Bachar and the Community's Betrayal 3. Surviving Nationalism: Isma'il abu-Shehade and Testimony amid the Ruins 4. Circumventing Nationalism: The Hakim Sisters and the Cosmopolitan Experience 5. Domesticated Nationalism: Nazihah Asis, a Prisoner of Zion 6. Dissolved Nationalism: Subhiya abu-Ramadan and the Critique of the Patriarchal Order 7. Overlooking Nationalism: Talia Seckbach-Monterescu In and Out of Place 8. Suspended Nationalism: Moshe (Mussa) Hermosa and Jewish-Arab Masculinity 9. Masking Nationalism: Amram Ben-Yosef on a Tightrope 10. Speechless Nationalism: Abu-George on the Edge Conclusion: From Identity Politics to Politics of Existence Epilogue: Earth to Earth: Posthumous Nationalism

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Book SynopsisAt the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire. The incurable disease gave rise to a culture of convalescence, creating new opportunities for travel and literary reflection. Tubercular Capital tells the story of Yiddish and Hebrew writers whose lives and work were transformed by a tubercular diagnosis. Moving from eastern Europe to the Italian Peninsula, and from Mandate Palestine to the Rocky Mountains, Sunny S. Yudkoff follows writers including Sholem Aleichem, Raḥel Bluvshtein, David Vogel, and others as they sought "the cure" and drew on their experiences of illness to hone their literary craft. Combining archival research with literary analysis, Yudkoff uncovers how tuberculosis came to function as an agent of modern Jewish literature. The illness would provide the means for these suffering writers to grow their reputations and find financial backing. It served a central role in the public fashioning of their literary personas and ushered Jewish writers into a variety of intersecting English, German, and Russian literary traditions. Tracing the paths of these writers, Tubercular Capital reconsiders the foundational relationship between disease, biography, and literature.Trade Review"This brilliant study combines thorough historical research with a fine-grained analysis of texts produced under the shadow of the 'White Death,' all framed by a powerful account of the cultural and economic matrix within which both the career of the individual poet and the tradition of tubercular writing are most fruitfully articulated." -- Ernest B. Gilman * New York University *"Resisting the sentimental transformation of illness into metaphor described by Susan Sontag, while attending to the persistently romanticized 'consumptive artist,' Sunny Yudkoff's brilliant study provides a new model for understanding the relationship between literary creativity and tuberculosis. Tubercular Capital argues that writers strategically mobilized their tuberculosis, both for their careers and in their work, even as they were laid low by disease. From Sholem Aleichem's 'tubercular Jubilee' to the sickrooms and sanatoria of other Hebrew and Yiddish writers, tuberculosis was inextricable from the burgeoning of early twentieth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literary culture." -- Naomi Seidman * University of Toronto *"Yudkoff's exploration seamlessly merges speculation with concrete history....Tempting as it may be to imbue illness with its own transcendental power, she chooses to depict its force with a more material and pragmatic truth, warning of the dangerous contortions of pain that come with romanticization." -- Arshy Azizi * Los Angeles Review of Books *"This research on the role that tuberculosis played in the lives and creative output of modern Jewish writers is original and fascinating....Highly recommended for academic libraries collecting in the area of Jewish culture and literature." -- Yaffa Weisman * Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter *"A major asset of [Tubercular Capital] is the fact that it retains an unromanticized view of suffering artists, which is even more important when examining their treasured poetic work." -- Heidi Stern * The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Jewish Literature and Tubercular Capital chapter abstractThe Introduction sets the stage for a larger investigation into the intersection of tuberculosis, biography, and literary output. To do so, the Introduction offers an account of the state of Yiddish and Hebrew literature at the turn of the twentieth century as well as an overview of various cultural-historical connotations of tuberculosis among Jewish and non-Jewish readers. This includes an examination of Romantic notions about consumption, anti-Semitic discourses surrounding tuberculosis, and the reputation of the disease among Zionists, communists, and Jewish public health officials across the globe. The Introduction further introduces the methodological intervention of the study—tubercular capital—by bringing together sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of "cultural capital" with anthropologist Didier Fassin's investigations into the "politics of life." 1In the Hands of Every Reader: Sholem Aleichem's Tubercular Jubilee chapter abstractThis chapter examines the role played by disease in the life and career of the classic Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (né Sholem Rabinovitsh). After being diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1908, a global campaign known as "The Jubilee" was initiated to help the destitute author recuperate in Nervi, Italy. Drawing on archival sources, newspaper articles, and multiple memoirs, this chapter plots how the campaign promoted the author's reputation, stabilized his finances, and inaugurated the first formal stage of literary-critical assessments of his work. It further analyzes the importance of tuberculosis in Sholem Aleichem's literary output, in the development of his literary persona, and in the establishment of a mutually-effective relationship with his readership. 2In a Sickroom of Her Own: Raḥel Bluvshtein's Tubercular Poetry chapter abstractThis chapter examines the role of tuberculosis in the life and writing of the Hebrew poet known as Raḥel. To do so, the chapter draws on the comparative model of the Victorian sickroom to examine how Raḥel transformed the space of her recuperation into a veritable salon of literary exchange and creativity. Reading Raḥel's correspondence and poetry and drawing on the memoiristic accounts published by her visitors, this chapter reveals that Raḥel's Tel Aviv sickroom became the center of her public self-fashioning as an ailing female poet. The sickroom further serves as the key for interpreting the link between Raḥel's poetics of space, simplicity (pashtut), and the spread (hitpashtut) of disease. This chapter also sharpens scholarly understanding of Raḥel's literary biography by situating her work within an Eastern European Romantic tradition of writing about consumption that stands in tension with contemporaneous Zionist ideas concerning illness. 3In the Kingdom of Fever: The Writers of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society chapter abstractThis chapter investigates the literary scene of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS), a Coloradan sanatorium for indigent Jews. There, a cohort of Yiddish tubercular writers engaged in a reciprocal relationship with the institution, becoming the public faces of the sanatorium and, in turn, being offered new venues to see their work published and translated. These writers include the lyric poet and Bible translator Yehoash, the epic poet H. Leivick, and the prose stylist Shea Tenenbaum. Drawing on archival records, newspaper reports, and memoirs, the chapter further explores how the JCRS supported the establishment of a tubercular American Yiddish literary tradition. 4In the Sanatorium: David Vogel Between Hebrew and German chapter abstractThis chapter examines the role played by tuberculosis in the life and writing of the Hebrew modernist David Vogel. After taking the cure in Merano, Italy in the winters of 1925 and 1926, he published his first novella, Be-vet ha-marpe (In the Sanatorium) in 1927. The text draws heavily on the tropes and concerns of German-language sanatorium fiction, including works by Arthur Schnitzler, Klabund, and Thomas Mann. Specifically, this chapter argues that Vogel writes his account of the sanatorium in a tense intertextual exchange with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). Vogel challenges the possibility of a Hebrew-German literary conversation through a series of interlingual puns, wordplays, and jokes about tuberculosis. Illness emerges in this chapter as the hermeneutic key to Vogel's modernism. Epilogue: After the Cure chapter abstractThis chapter explores post-Holocaust iterations of tuberculosis and sanatoria in the work of the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld. Although he did not suffer from tuberculosis, Appelfeld frequently turns to the disease and its institutions, such as in his 1975 novella, Badenheim, 'ir nofesh (English: Badenheim 1939). Bringing his work into dialogue with the texts of the tubercular writers of the pre-WWII period, this chapter demonstrates the continued relevance of tubercular capital as a methodological prism and analytic category, even after a diagnosis of tuberculosis was no longer commonplace among modern Jewish writers.

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Book SynopsisThe production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies. With this book, Rosie Bsheer explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca. The elites' project was rife with ironies: in Riyadh, they employed world-renowned experts to fashion an imagined history, while at the same time in Mecca they were overseeing the obliteration of a thousand-year-old topography and its replacement with commercial megaprojects. Archive Wars shows how the Saudi state's response to the challenges of the Gulf War served to historicize a national space, territorialize a national history, and ultimately refract both through new modes of capital accumulation.Trade Review"There are now two distinct eras in the writing of Saudi Arabian history: before Rosie Bsheer's Archive Wars and after." -- Robert Vitalis * University of Pennsylvania, author of Oilcraft *"Archive Wars explores with conceptual brilliance and historical aplomb the various forms of historical erasure central not just to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but to all modern states. In a finely-grained analysis, Rosie Bsheer rethinks the significance of archives, historicism, capital accumulation, and the remaking of the built environment. A must-read for all historians concerned with the materiality of modern state formation." -- Omnia El Shakry * University of California, Davis, author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt *"Archive Wars is an instant classic. With incredible insight, creativity, and courage, Rosie Bsheer peels away the political and institutional barriers that have so long mystified others seeking to understand Saudi Arabia. Bsheer tells us remarkable new things about the exercise and meaning of power in today's Saudi Arabia." -- Toby Jones * Rutgers University, author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia *"Rosie Bsheer's Archive Wars is one of those extraordinary projects that explodes fictions of so many kinds about archives and state power. This masterful and meticulous book is testimony to the visceral violences that underwrite legal and archival mandates, the bedrock of the massive inequalities that plague our collective worlds now more than ever. Bsheer offers us a reading of the wars that rage in—and over—modern archives, showing that they are not modern because they are unmarred by the destruction of records, but because they are constituted by ever bolder techniques of erasure." -- Ann Stoler * The New School for Social Research, author of Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times *"Archive Wars is a much-needed and in many ways revelatory addition to our understanding of Saudi history and politics. On a personal level, I found the work to be an absolute delight to read and one that has challenged the way I look at Saudi politics. Despite being a vital country in the Middle East, there are few good texts on the kingdom. Archive Wars will stimulate better and more critical scholarship. It changes the way we think about the relationship between archives, heritage, and political power in the region, and beyond." -- Middle East Monitor"[A] must-read for anybody interested in modern Saudi Arabia. Whether you are looking for insights into the ambitions of kings or into the lives of ordinary people, it is essential to know how historical information is kept and erased. Beyond that, I recommend Bsheer's work to anybody studying the creation of archives and heritage elsewhere in the Middle East and globally." -- Jörg Matthias Determann * Journal of Social History *"By dissecting competing and complicated relationships between and among the Saudi state and elites, Bsheer presents a compelling portrait of the state's forceful consolidation of an acceptable historical narrative, showcasing the Saudi state's attempts to elide any historical documents or physical traces that do not corroborate the sanctioned story of the rise of Al Saud... [T]he book's depictions of urban transformations are essential for understanding the nature of power in Saudi Arabia today." -- Kathryn King * Journal of Arabian Studies *"This book is an intelligent, subtle, and learned treatment of the efforts by the Saudi Arabian monarchy to construct and disseminate a historical narrative that will legitimize its rule. Bsheer precisely and elegantly describes the regime's attempts, across the reigns of several kings, to both collect and suppress documentation about the country's past." -- Lisa Anderson * Foreign Affairs *"We find in Rosie Bsheer's book a skillful combination of topics and a stimulating engagement with the politics of history. Archive Wars deserves close reading, especially as it engages with a notoriously challenging country to frame, thanks to the author's unique access to the kingdom, her use of Saudi academic scholarship, and the books theoretical intervention in the political science of the Middle East and North Africa." -- Idriss Jebari * Canadian Journal of History *"This book substantially reworks existing knowledge of Saudi Arabia—the making of the state, the legitimization of its power, and the centrality of diverse history-making projects in these projects. Drawing on rich ethnographic and archival work, the author convincingly argues that the ruling regime has been engaged in a project of re-writing Saudi history since the 1990s. Central to these history-making projects has been the 'archive wars' and efforts to centralize archival sources, as well as re-making the built environment through urban planning and development.Sophisticated and engaging and politically bold." -- Committee for the Nikki Keddie Book Award * sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association *"Rosie Bsheer'sArchive Warsis a forceful and inspiring reminder of what superb and unflinching scholarship and writing can do. Based on exciting fieldwork,Archive Wars examines the erasing and building of history in Saudi Arabia. It is one of those rare books that focuses our attention – without hesitation – on the broader stakes and processes of modern state formation while detailing the contingencies and tensions of power. It exposes with clarity and precision links between political-economy, state power, and the materiality of documents and the built environment. Attempts to erase and rewrite the past in Saudi Arabia will have to contend with Rosie Bsheer's archive.—Committee for the AGAPS Biennial Book AwardTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: The Archive Question chapter abstractIn the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, ruling elites in Saudi Arabia adopted measures that aimed to reconfigure state power by pacifying wartime popular opposition, reshaping the politics of subject formation, and diversifying the petroleum economy. The ensuing struggle over state form—what I call archive wars—revolved around the production of history, the reordering of space, and the repurposing of valuable real estate. Historicizing these practices helps us rethink the nature of modern archival formation as well as statecraft while calling into question scholarly assumptions about the cohesiveness of authoritarian states, and of states in general. Approaching the domains of history making and urban planning as mutually constitutive, contested, and ongoing material practices of state formation complicates conventional understandings of the nature of state power and its imbrication with archive formation. 1Occluded Pasts chapter abstractThis chapter takes up one strand of sociopolitical and cultural life in late Ottoman Mecca: the school of Indian religious scholar Muhammad Rahmatullah al-Kairanawi and its relation to the emergence of an intellectually engaged Hijazi middle class during the nahda. The chapter then attends to how the Saudi state occluded and repackaged this history since 1932. Beyond the symbolic power it bestowed upon its rulers, Mecca was a space where intellectual debate flourished, honing the minds of thinkers who became central figures in twentieth-century politics and religion. Yet Mecca's past is absent from histories of the Hijaz and of Saudi Arabia and from histories of intellectual thought, cultural production, and political activism in the late Ottoman period. Unearthing these transregional histories is urgent because the Saudi state has been destroying the city's built environment in lockstep with the logic of historical erasure and state formation. 2A State With No Archive chapter abstractIn 1966, at the height of the struggle between reactionary and progressive forces that pitted Al Saud against Gamal Abdel Nasser and progressive forces inside Saudi Arabia, King Faisal passed the country's first archiving law. The aim was to choreograph a sanitized version of history and to reify elites' political, territorial, economic, and cultural claims. This chapter connects the beginning of archival praxis in Cold War Arabia to the necessity of managing elite power rivalries and fending off threats from regional rivals and domestic political movements. These anxieties shaped archival praxis and subsequently institutionalized a culture of secrecy and rivalry across the bureaucracy, with the push and pull of the archival operation mirroring the rivalries endemic to the Saudi state. Tracing the battles to produce an archive from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s shows how Saudi Arabia complicates conventional thinking about archives and about the authoritarian state itself. 3Assembling History chapter abstractIn the 1990s, Saudi Arabia's top rulers sought to shift the grounds for political legitimation, subject formation, and economic diversification to maintain power following the Gulf War. This required the production of primary source materials for a revised, secular official history, the repositories that would house them, and the spaces that would monumentalize such a discourse. The Darah, along with the Ariyyadh Development Authority, assembled the past and its spaces in Riyadh. With the backing of Salman, who was Riyadh's governor at the time, the low-grade archive fever of the 1970s got a second lease on life. Like Faisal before him, Salman faced challenges to centralizing the archive: from members of the ruling family, politicians and bureaucrats, activists and archivists. Institutional acts of history making and placing put into question the coherence of historical narration and memorialization, and expose archival anxieties and rivalries among the architects of state building. 4Heritage as War chapter abstractIn the aftermath of the Gulf War, an army of urban planners, economists, historians, archeologists, and tourism consultants descended upon Riyadh. Under the aegis of the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh, they brainstormed ideas for the redevelopment of the capital city, with an eye to the economic, political, and social challenges that the country was facing in the late twentieth century. The Arriyadh Development Authority oversaw the production of a regulatory planning document that would transform Riyadh into the administrative, cultural, economic, touristic, and historical center of Saudi Arabia. This chapter examines the production and destruction of historical sites since the 1950s. It shows how the 1990s saw the acceleration of the remaking of historical areas in Riyadh and the creation of a productive heritage industry therein. Memorialization came to constitute a key node in the postwar architectural reformulation of the state. 5Bulldozing the Past chapter abstractSince the early 2000s, the Saudi state summarily dynamited whole mountains around the Grand Mosque, destroying much of Islam's material history and replacing it with commercial megaprojects. The deliberate demolition of historical and religious sites in Mecca starkly contrasts with the preservation of more recent and dilapidated sites associated with Al Saud's heritage in Riyadh. In post–Gulf War Saudi Arabia, Mecca came to serve a different legitimating purpose, one rooted in grandiose infrastructural projects and aesthetics, wherein secular time overwhelmed religious temporality and subjectivity. The regime used Wahhabi iconoclasm and the need to modernize the hajj to justify such destruction. This chapter shows how the city's urban "renewal" was inextricable from archival formation and urban planning in Riyadh. The neoliberal city was at the heart of the twinned postwar process of real estate and heritage development, with Al Saud and the Binladin family reaping billions off its redevelopment. Conclusion: The Violence of History chapter abstractThis chapter centers on how Saudi rulers instrumentalized religion to pacify post–Gulf War popular contestation and shifted the basis of state legitimation to secular historical memorialization, political commemoration, and urban redevelopment. Using these material practices, it shows how statecraft, even in authoritarian regimes, evolves diachronically in response to a multiplicity of challenges, not least of which is popular opposition. The postwar project, however, was transformed at different critical junctures: the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia in the 2000s, the Arab Uprisings, and the ascension of the postwar project's architect, Salman ibn Abdulaziz, to the throne in 2015. With Salman in power, the archival landscape, both institutional and spatial, has for the most part succumbed to his decades-long national vision. Cultural and urban redevelopment reflects the material culture and built environment of Salman's Saudi Arabia, which enshrined his view of the past, present, and future.

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Book SynopsisThe city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish and Arab residents, however, reveal lives and nationalist sentiments far more complex. Twilight Nationalism shares the stories of ten of the city's elders—women and men, rich and poor, Muslims, Jews, and Christians—to radically deconstruct these national myths and challenge common understandings of belonging and alienation. Through the stories told at life's end, Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan illuminate how national affiliation ultimately gives way to existential circumstances. Similarities in lives prove to be shaped far more by socioeconomic class, age, and gender than national allegiance, and intersections between stories usher in a politics of existence in place of politics of identity. In offering the real stories individuals tell about themselves, this book reveals shared perspectives too long silenced and new understandings of local community previously lost in nationalist narratives.Trade Review"In Twilight Nationalism, Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan go far beyond standard narratives about Jaffa, where Jews, Muslims, and Christians have long shared the city. The authors break through the thicket of established notions and give us an alternative description. And they do so brilliantly."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions"Twilight Nationalism gives voice to ten elderly Palestinian survivors and Jewish immigrants from Jaffa who narrate and, indeed, analyze, how the burden of history and the tyranny of the nation fragmented the rhythms of their lives. Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan produced a multivocal elegy that is as profound as it is imaginative and nothing short of brilliant."—Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego, author of A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict"This groundbreaking book exposes the hidden gems of a binational city, that even indigenous Jaffans like myself tend to overlook."—Moussa Abou-Ramadan, University of Strasbourg, coauthor of Treatise of Comparative Islamic Law"InTwilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life's End,authors Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan offer an original and thought-provoking ethnographic study of nationalist identity in the "mixed" city of Jaffa...[W]hat their analysis does amply and sensitively show is the value of a relational and situational approach to the study of nationalist identities and discourses, and the importance of being attentive to different social, spatial, and temporal configurations in analyses of their import upon everyday lives."––Una McGahern, H-Nationalism"One of the strengths of this ethnography is the intimate humanity of the individuals who appear in it...Together, the historical breadth and personal depth of the life histories narrated in this book could offer rich teaching material for students interested in old age, memory, the intersection of identity, politics, and gender, the false dichotomy of collaboration versus resistance, and mixed cities in Israel/ Palestine."––Basma Fahoum, Review of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Toward Twilight Nationalism 1. Besieged Nationalism: Fakhri Jday and the Decline of the Elites 2. Worn-Out Nationalism: Rabbi Avraham Bachar and the Community's Betrayal 3. Surviving Nationalism: Isma'il abu-Shehade and Testimony amid the Ruins 4. Circumventing Nationalism: The Hakim Sisters and the Cosmopolitan Experience 5. Domesticated Nationalism: Nazihah Asis, a Prisoner of Zion 6. Dissolved Nationalism: Subhiya abu-Ramadan and the Critique of the Patriarchal Order 7. Overlooking Nationalism: Talia Seckbach-Monterescu In and Out of Place 8. Suspended Nationalism: Moshe (Mussa) Hermosa and Jewish-Arab Masculinity 9. Masking Nationalism: Amram Ben-Yosef on a Tightrope 10. Speechless Nationalism: Abu-George on the Edge Conclusion: From Identity Politics to Politics of Existence Epilogue: Earth to Earth: Posthumous Nationalism

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Book SynopsisFor over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass. They did this by "hacking" Islamic law in accordance with changing times and contexts, diving into the interconnected Islamic legal tradition to recalibrate what was outdated, making some laws work better and more efficiently while leaving others undisturbed. These hacking skills made Islamic law both flexible and relevant so that it could meet the needs of a community with changing values while remaining true to its ancient roots. Today, the hacking process has stalled in the face of unprecedented structural challenges, and Islamic law has stagnated. This book is designed to revitalize the hacking tradition by getting readers involved in the process. It walks them through the ins and outs of Islamic legal change, vividly describing how Muslim scholars have met new and evolving challenges on topics as diverse as abolition, democracy, finance, gender, human rights, sexuality, and more. And it provides step-by-step instructions for readers to hack laws for themselves, so that through their engagement and creativity, they can help Islamic law regain its intrinsic vitality and resume its role as a forward-looking source for good in the world.Trade Review"In this original and thought-provoking book, Rumee Ahmed shows how law and practice can interact to shape as well as reflect a community's collective wisdom. He tackles with authority a highly complex and contested set of concepts in Islamic law, making them highly accessible."—Ziba Mir-Hosseini, University of London"A superb introduction to changing and reforming Islamic law from within the tradition."—Ziauddin Sardar, author of Mecca: The Sacred City and Editor of Critical Muslim"This book is a must-read for believers as well as researchers—those tired of being apologists, those who have exhausted the dull repertoire of arguments that Islam is a religion of peace, and those facing an onslaught of hatred, discrimination, and misrepresentation. Rumee Ahmed honors a timeless faith, a Holy Book, a wise Prophet, and generations of enlightened acolytes who do not defend the faith as much as they uphold its very tenets."—Azza Karam, UN Population Fund and UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Religion and Development"A creative and accessible exploration of Islamic law and tradition. I learned a lot from this book." —Eboo Patel, Founder and President of the Interfaith Youth Core, and author of Acts of Faith and Interfaith Leadership"Nothing is trickier than convincing believers that religious law evolves—and that they should try to shape its evolution. Sharia Compliant takes on this task with verve and optimism...by busting myths and urging development the book makes a meaningful contribution to contemporary Islamic thought and politics." —Noah R. Feldman, Harvard Law School and author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State"In this superbly written work, Rumee Ahmed skillfully turns complex notions into accessible ideas. He shows the reader how to independently connect classical Islamic law with the challenges of contemporary life, using real-life examples. This book is for the scholar, activist, and lay person alike. It achieves the difficult task of democratizing the production of Islamic legal knowledge today by making it possible for all to participate in its creation. A considerable and much-needed feat!"—Marwa Sharafeldin, Musawah: Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family"In a book aimed mainly at fellow Muslims, Ahmed (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) suggests that more efficient solutions can recapture the ability of Islamic law to adapt to contemporary needs. He speaks of patching (accommodating) and hacking (revising) as vehicles through which temporary and long-lasting applications can be made to a variety of domestic, commercial, and criminal proceedings....Recommended."—L. Rosen, CHOICE"Ahmed's in-depth book demonstrates how flexible Islamic law can be as it evolves to tackle the issues of 21st century life and will appeal to lay readers interested in the textual origins of popularly held beliefs about the Koran."—Publisher's Weekly"Rumee offers us hope that change is not only feasible in Islamic law but is integral to it, as that is how it has survived through centuries of Muslim communities in all times, places and context....I am grateful for his book."—Junaid Jahangir, Maydan"Rumee Ahmed has provided a spirited, accessible (and no doubt in some corners controversial) handbook for harmonizing proposed ethical and moral components in the Islamic tradition. The book should be required reading for those who want to understand how modern thinkers in Islamic law grapple with legitimacy, tradition, and a changing world."—Ian M. Hartshorn, Terrorism and Political Violence

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Book SynopsisAt once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews' biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert. Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze. Drawing on literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons, Zerubavel reveals the complexities and contradictions that mark Israeli society's semiotics of space in relation to the Middle East, and the central role of the "besieged island" trope in Israeli culture and politics.Trade Review"Written with passion, innovation, and clarity, Desert in the Promised Land makes an original and significant contribution towards understanding the deeper currents of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By analyzing the role of the desert in Zionist ideology and the collective identity of Israel, Zerubavel adds new dimensions to her groundbreaking and acclaimed study of Israeli myths and memory, Recovered Roots." -- Tom Segev * author of 1949: The First Israelis *"In Desert in the Promised Land, space and memory, desert and settlement, are interwoven into a complex and fascinating portrait of Israel. Yael Zerubavel has written an engaging book that combines anthropology, culture, and history." -- Anita Shapira * author of Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel *"Yael Zerubavel has produced an important, original study of the multiple meanings of the desert in Zionist and Israeli culture. Ranging from the early twentieth century to the present, Zerubavel brings together a vast array of sources, which she reads with deep insight and describes in graceful prose." -- Derek J. Penslar * author of Jews and the Military: A History *"In a rewarding but not easy read, Zerubavel analyzes the complex meanings and varied perceptions of this desert for Jews before 1948 and for Israelis thereafter. She organizes her analysis as a metaphysical yet also a chronological journey through the symbolic desert landscape of space and meaning. The text moves from the ancient biblical story of divine revelations and of national birth of the Jewish people to the more recent tension between the themes of desert and settlement as opposing symbolic landscapes. Recommended." -- B. Harris Jr. * CHOICE *"Desert in the Promised Land is not an academic exercise in abstract distinctions, but a 'metaphorical journey' through the collective Jewish Israeli imaginary drawing from literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons. Recommended to all academic libraries." -- Roger S. Kohn * Association of Jewish Libraries *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: chapter abstractThe introduction sets the stage for exploring the divergent meanings of the desert as a symbolic landscape within the "spatial code" that Hebrew, and later Israeli, culture developed. Hebrew culture foregrounded the settlement as the key to Jewish national revival and relegated the desert to the background. This study reverses this relation, placing the desert at the center and setting out to examine the ambiguities underlying desert-settlement relations. The introduction presents the historical and thematic framework of the book. The first part addresses the duality of the symbolic desert in the Hebrew culture of late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. The second part focuses on post-1948 Israel and the concrete Negev desert that is now included in its territory, examining the construction of the desert within the discourses and practices of settlement, environmentalism, and tourism, thus revealing the diverse visions of the desert in Israeli culture. 1Desert as Historical Metaphor chapter abstractThis chapter explores the dual meaning of the desert as a chronotope that links space and memory. The desert plays a critical role in the biblical exodus, as the "nonplace" set between Egypt, the land of exile, on the one hand, and the Promised Land, on the other, and the desert is hence the site of divine revelations and profound transitions that shaped the Israelites' collective identity. Jewish memory views the desert as representing the period of Jewish exile that led to the destruction of the homeland. Jewish tradition interprets exile as a divine punishment and Zionism constructed it as a regressive period within its decline narrative. References to the landscape outside Jewish settlements as a desolate "desert" and a "wasteland" underscored the redemptive mission of the Zionist settlement. The discussion addresses the tension between these interpretations and the use of the desert as a symbolic category. 2The Desert Mystique chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on European Jewish immigrants' fascination with the desert mystique. The desert appealed to European Zionist Jews as the mythical site of origins that preserved their ancient heritage. Orientalist images of the desert as resistant to modernity and change further reinforced the mythical view of the desert and its Bedouin inhabitants, but also Yemenite Jews, as inspiration for the construction of a modern Hebrew culture and identity. A nostalgic longing for the ancient past led some Zionist settlers and Hebrew youth to selectively adapt cultural idioms from Palestinian Arabs and generated the hybrid "Hebrew Bedouin" identity and a Hebrew desert lore. Other Zionist immigrants warned against the impact of the East on the Hebrew culture. The competing attitudes to the East reveal the Zionist Jewish settlers' ambivalence, as exiles returning to their homeland with conflicting ideas of separateness and belonging to the Middle East. 3Desert as the Counter-Place chapter abstractThis chapter explores settlement discourse and its competing interpretation of the desert as the counter-place. Early Zionist settlement narratives allude to wide-ranging terrains such as sands, swamps, barren mountains, and arid land as aspects of a hostile and chaotic "desert" while presenting the Jewish settlement as an "oasis" or "island" of order, modernity, and progress. The gendering of landscapes, the veneration of technology, and the use of war rhetoric enhance the achievements of the Jewish settlement in transforming its environment, and these ideas have been articulated in literature, songs, and art. The discussion addresses the influence of prevalent Western colonialist and modernist ideas and land-reclamation practices on the discourse and practices of Zionist settlement. As the national conflict in Palestine flared up in the 1930s, the discourses of settlement and security became intertwined and played a more prominent rolein shaping the view of the desert-settlement relations. 4The Negev Frontier chapter abstractAfter the 1948 war, the new state of Israel included the large and arid Negev region, and the discussion shifts from the symbolic desert outside the Jewish settlement to a concrete desert that has become an internal Jewish frontier. Although Prime Minister Ben-Gurion championed the goal of "making the desert bloom" and the state transferred water to the Negev, the limited response by established Israeli Jews led to the forced settlement of new immigrants in the desert in the 1950s and 1960s. These rural settlements and development towns faced major hardships, and the post-1967 Jewish drive to settle the occupied territories further blurred the Negev's status as a frontier and a periphery. Even with large areas of the Negev designated as national parks, nature reserves, and military bases, the call for new Jewish settlements continued, leading to experimental forms that diversified the Negev's Jewish population. 5The Negev Bedouins chapter abstractThe Negev's Bedouin population, greatly diminished after 1948, is the focus of this chapter. The state relocated most Negev Bedouins to the enclosed Siyag area, where they remained under military administration until 1966. Since then it has pursued an urbanization plan for the fast-growing Bedouin population in designated "Bedouin towns," yet a significant number of Bedouins refuse to settle their land claims, preferring to remain in their unrecognized rural villages. The government regards the so-called "Bedouin dispersion" as the embodiment of a chaotic and subversive counter-place while it promotes Jewish settlements in the Negev. Residents of the unrecognized villages live in the gray zone of a semi-permanent temporary state. The Bedouins' growing alienation, the rise of crime in the Negev, and harsh measures by law enforcement contribute to the perception of the Negev as the Wild South. 6Unsettled Landscapes chapter abstractThis chapter examines the environmental discourse and its revisionist view of desert-settlement relations. The environmental lobby acknowledges the desert-settlement opposition but reinterprets its meaning: the desert represents nature and the open space that must be protected from an overly aggressive settlement drive and development projects, and from its perception as a "national dump" for undesired, discredited, and dangerous human and material elements. Most of the desert is designated for nature reserves, national parks, and military bases. The environmentalists employ salvage rhetoric and the legal recourse to defend the desert environment from settlement development and industrial projects, while some proponents of the settlement agenda attack their position as anti-Zionist. The discussion highlights the contested visions of the desert and the fluidity of the coalitions formed between the state, local authorities, the army, the industry, tourism, and the environmental lobby in different cases. 7The Desert and the Tourist Gaze chapter abstractThis chapter examines the discourse and practices of tourism, which offer multiple visions of the desert that highlight its contrast with life at the urban center and ignore the tensions between them. Sinai desert tourism offered a popular alternative to Israeli desert tourism in the post-1967 period, yet today Eilat and the Dead Sea area are major tourist attractions, and Negev tourism is developing. Tourist publicity highlights the unspoiled landscape, yet offers tours of archeological sites that are World Cultural Heritage sites, as well as a diversity of modern rural settlements in the Negev. Tourism highlights the simple life in nature in the open space and its spiritual dimension, but also offers a rough terrain for adventure seekers and upscale lodgings with "pampering amenities." Jewish desert sites perform "Bedouin hospitality" for tourists, but visits to Bedouin towns and villages reveal rapidly changing and diverse lifestyles in different settings. Epilogue chapter abstractIn the post-1967 era, the emergence of two divergent visions of Israel reveals continuity with earlier themes and metaphors surrounding desert-settlement relations. One advocates a return to pre-1967 borders in exchange for peace, which led to the peace treaty with Egypt and the Oslo agreement and advances transnational cooperation around common interests. The second vision promotes the Jewish settlement and security agenda in the occupied territories, embracing the view of an inherently conflictual relation between Israel and its neighbors. The epilogue examines the entrenchment of Israel settlement and security discourse and the growing impact of the "besieged island" template. Israel has surrounded itself with walls to prevent illegal entry and terrorist attacks, recreating a modern Jewish ghetto while imposing territorial divisions and besieged islands within the Palestinian territory. Israeli culture may also provide alternative solutions for the negotiation of a different future in the Middle East.

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Book SynopsisAt once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews' biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert. Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze. Drawing on literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons, Zerubavel reveals the complexities and contradictions that mark Israeli society's semiotics of space in relation to the Middle East, and the central role of the "besieged island" trope in Israeli culture and politics.Trade Review"Written with passion, innovation, and clarity, Desert in the Promised Land makes an original and significant contribution towards understanding the deeper currents of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By analyzing the role of the desert in Zionist ideology and the collective identity of Israel, Zerubavel adds new dimensions to her groundbreaking and acclaimed study of Israeli myths and memory, Recovered Roots." -- Tom Segev * author of 1949: The First Israelis *"In Desert in the Promised Land, space and memory, desert and settlement, are interwoven into a complex and fascinating portrait of Israel. Yael Zerubavel has written an engaging book that combines anthropology, culture, and history." -- Anita Shapira * author of Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel *"Yael Zerubavel has produced an important, original study of the multiple meanings of the desert in Zionist and Israeli culture. Ranging from the early twentieth century to the present, Zerubavel brings together a vast array of sources, which she reads with deep insight and describes in graceful prose." -- Derek J. Penslar * author of Jews and the Military: A History *"In a rewarding but not easy read, Zerubavel analyzes the complex meanings and varied perceptions of this desert for Jews before 1948 and for Israelis thereafter. She organizes her analysis as a metaphysical yet also a chronological journey through the symbolic desert landscape of space and meaning. The text moves from the ancient biblical story of divine revelations and of national birth of the Jewish people to the more recent tension between the themes of desert and settlement as opposing symbolic landscapes. Recommended." -- B. Harris Jr. * CHOICE *"Desert in the Promised Land is not an academic exercise in abstract distinctions, but a 'metaphorical journey' through the collective Jewish Israeli imaginary drawing from literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons. Recommended to all academic libraries." -- Roger S. Kohn * Association of Jewish Libraries *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: chapter abstractThe introduction sets the stage for exploring the divergent meanings of the desert as a symbolic landscape within the "spatial code" that Hebrew, and later Israeli, culture developed. Hebrew culture foregrounded the settlement as the key to Jewish national revival and relegated the desert to the background. This study reverses this relation, placing the desert at the center and setting out to examine the ambiguities underlying desert-settlement relations. The introduction presents the historical and thematic framework of the book. The first part addresses the duality of the symbolic desert in the Hebrew culture of late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. The second part focuses on post-1948 Israel and the concrete Negev desert that is now included in its territory, examining the construction of the desert within the discourses and practices of settlement, environmentalism, and tourism, thus revealing the diverse visions of the desert in Israeli culture. 1Desert as Historical Metaphor chapter abstractThis chapter explores the dual meaning of the desert as a chronotope that links space and memory. The desert plays a critical role in the biblical exodus, as the "nonplace" set between Egypt, the land of exile, on the one hand, and the Promised Land, on the other, and the desert is hence the site of divine revelations and profound transitions that shaped the Israelites' collective identity. Jewish memory views the desert as representing the period of Jewish exile that led to the destruction of the homeland. Jewish tradition interprets exile as a divine punishment and Zionism constructed it as a regressive period within its decline narrative. References to the landscape outside Jewish settlements as a desolate "desert" and a "wasteland" underscored the redemptive mission of the Zionist settlement. The discussion addresses the tension between these interpretations and the use of the desert as a symbolic category. 2The Desert Mystique chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on European Jewish immigrants' fascination with the desert mystique. The desert appealed to European Zionist Jews as the mythical site of origins that preserved their ancient heritage. Orientalist images of the desert as resistant to modernity and change further reinforced the mythical view of the desert and its Bedouin inhabitants, but also Yemenite Jews, as inspiration for the construction of a modern Hebrew culture and identity. A nostalgic longing for the ancient past led some Zionist settlers and Hebrew youth to selectively adapt cultural idioms from Palestinian Arabs and generated the hybrid "Hebrew Bedouin" identity and a Hebrew desert lore. Other Zionist immigrants warned against the impact of the East on the Hebrew culture. The competing attitudes to the East reveal the Zionist Jewish settlers' ambivalence, as exiles returning to their homeland with conflicting ideas of separateness and belonging to the Middle East. 3Desert as the Counter-Place chapter abstractThis chapter explores settlement discourse and its competing interpretation of the desert as the counter-place. Early Zionist settlement narratives allude to wide-ranging terrains such as sands, swamps, barren mountains, and arid land as aspects of a hostile and chaotic "desert" while presenting the Jewish settlement as an "oasis" or "island" of order, modernity, and progress. The gendering of landscapes, the veneration of technology, and the use of war rhetoric enhance the achievements of the Jewish settlement in transforming its environment, and these ideas have been articulated in literature, songs, and art. The discussion addresses the influence of prevalent Western colonialist and modernist ideas and land-reclamation practices on the discourse and practices of Zionist settlement. As the national conflict in Palestine flared up in the 1930s, the discourses of settlement and security became intertwined and played a more prominent rolein shaping the view of the desert-settlement relations. 4The Negev Frontier chapter abstractAfter the 1948 war, the new state of Israel included the large and arid Negev region, and the discussion shifts from the symbolic desert outside the Jewish settlement to a concrete desert that has become an internal Jewish frontier. Although Prime Minister Ben-Gurion championed the goal of "making the desert bloom" and the state transferred water to the Negev, the limited response by established Israeli Jews led to the forced settlement of new immigrants in the desert in the 1950s and 1960s. These rural settlements and development towns faced major hardships, and the post-1967 Jewish drive to settle the occupied territories further blurred the Negev's status as a frontier and a periphery. Even with large areas of the Negev designated as national parks, nature reserves, and military bases, the call for new Jewish settlements continued, leading to experimental forms that diversified the Negev's Jewish population. 5The Negev Bedouins chapter abstractThe Negev's Bedouin population, greatly diminished after 1948, is the focus of this chapter. The state relocated most Negev Bedouins to the enclosed Siyag area, where they remained under military administration until 1966. Since then it has pursued an urbanization plan for the fast-growing Bedouin population in designated "Bedouin towns," yet a significant number of Bedouins refuse to settle their land claims, preferring to remain in their unrecognized rural villages. The government regards the so-called "Bedouin dispersion" as the embodiment of a chaotic and subversive counter-place while it promotes Jewish settlements in the Negev. Residents of the unrecognized villages live in the gray zone of a semi-permanent temporary state. The Bedouins' growing alienation, the rise of crime in the Negev, and harsh measures by law enforcement contribute to the perception of the Negev as the Wild South. 6Unsettled Landscapes chapter abstractThis chapter examines the environmental discourse and its revisionist view of desert-settlement relations. The environmental lobby acknowledges the desert-settlement opposition but reinterprets its meaning: the desert represents nature and the open space that must be protected from an overly aggressive settlement drive and development projects, and from its perception as a "national dump" for undesired, discredited, and dangerous human and material elements. Most of the desert is designated for nature reserves, national parks, and military bases. The environmentalists employ salvage rhetoric and the legal recourse to defend the desert environment from settlement development and industrial projects, while some proponents of the settlement agenda attack their position as anti-Zionist. The discussion highlights the contested visions of the desert and the fluidity of the coalitions formed between the state, local authorities, the army, the industry, tourism, and the environmental lobby in different cases. 7The Desert and the Tourist Gaze chapter abstractThis chapter examines the discourse and practices of tourism, which offer multiple visions of the desert that highlight its contrast with life at the urban center and ignore the tensions between them. Sinai desert tourism offered a popular alternative to Israeli desert tourism in the post-1967 period, yet today Eilat and the Dead Sea area are major tourist attractions, and Negev tourism is developing. Tourist publicity highlights the unspoiled landscape, yet offers tours of archeological sites that are World Cultural Heritage sites, as well as a diversity of modern rural settlements in the Negev. Tourism highlights the simple life in nature in the open space and its spiritual dimension, but also offers a rough terrain for adventure seekers and upscale lodgings with "pampering amenities." Jewish desert sites perform "Bedouin hospitality" for tourists, but visits to Bedouin towns and villages reveal rapidly changing and diverse lifestyles in different settings. Epilogue chapter abstractIn the post-1967 era, the emergence of two divergent visions of Israel reveals continuity with earlier themes and metaphors surrounding desert-settlement relations. One advocates a return to pre-1967 borders in exchange for peace, which led to the peace treaty with Egypt and the Oslo agreement and advances transnational cooperation around common interests. The second vision promotes the Jewish settlement and security agenda in the occupied territories, embracing the view of an inherently conflictual relation between Israel and its neighbors. The epilogue examines the entrenchment of Israel settlement and security discourse and the growing impact of the "besieged island" template. Israel has surrounded itself with walls to prevent illegal entry and terrorist attacks, recreating a modern Jewish ghetto while imposing territorial divisions and besieged islands within the Palestinian territory. Israeli culture may also provide alternative solutions for the negotiation of a different future in the Middle East.

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Book SynopsisAmerican and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy." But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary form—when Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by the diaspora? Reading Israel, Reading America explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. Engaging in close readings of translations of iconic novels by the likes of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and Yoram Kaniuk—in particular, the ideologically motivated omissions and additions in the translations, and the works' reception by reviewers and public intellectuals—Asscher decodes the literary encounter between Israeli and American Jews. These discrepancies demarcate an ongoing cultural dialogue around representations of violence, ethics, Zionism, diaspora, and the boundaries between Jews and non-Jews. Navigating the disputes between these "rival siblings" of the Jewish world, Asscher provocatively untangles the cultural relations between Israeli and American Jews.Trade Review"In this illuminating and sharp-eyed work, translation provides a powerful lens to discern what connects and divides Israeli and American Jews. Taking the literary landscape in which they read each other as a rich site of cross-cultural meeting, Asscher shows how this encounter is also shaped and warped by mutual misunderstanding and divergent sociological and political currents."—Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto"This sparkling book gives us real insight into the evolution of Israeli and American Jews' increasingly complex relationship. With impressive literary sophistication and wide-ranging historical knowledge, Omri Asscher reveals how translation has served not only as a bridge but as a site of encounter and even confrontation."—David Myers, University of California, Los Angeles"A timely book; the relationship between Israel and America continues to resonate in 2020, perhaps even more so than it has in the past."—Moshe Weisblum, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"[A] fascinating and original study... Asscher's book is impressive, and it stands out as the first full-length study of literary translation in the context of Israeli-American Jewish relations during the period in question. It will surely serve as an important resource for future scholars in translation studies, Jewish studies, and those focusing on homeland/diaspora relations."—Anthony Wexler, AJS Review"Omri Asscher's first book is surely one of the most interesting and critically consequential studies of Israeli literary culture to appear in the last few years, especially concerning its influence and reception abroad... [M]any readers of Reading Israel, Reading America's early chapters may never be able to fully place their complete trust in a translated Hebrew novel ever again... It cannot be overemphasized how often Asscher's discussion encompasses works that have had a tremendous influence on American readers... [W]e have no other study quite like it and future readers, scholars, and translators seeking to be more mindful of their own identities, biases, and practices, will surely be in his debt."—Ranen Omer-Sherman, Hebrew Studies"Reading Israel, Reading America compellingly and thoroughly explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. [...] Asscher vividly examines the ideology of these cultural agents in the literary field and provides a deep description of the main trends in the translation and integration of Hebrew literature in America and American Jewish literature in Israel in the second half of the twentieth century while also outlining the collective portrait they helped shape in those years in the respective literary fields. [...] [a] fascinating and original project."—Elazar Ben-Lulu, American Jewish History"A comprehensive exploration of the politics of translation.... Asscher's book is a truly fascinating work, a major contribution to the question of how the dynamics of translation enhance our understanding, not only of Israeli and American Jewish literature, but of the respective societies themselves. Omri Asscher is nothing if not erudite in literature and sociology; there was the rare page in Reading Israel, Reading America from which this reviewer did not learn something.... [E]stimable."—Jerome A. Chanes, Contemporary JewryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Translating across the Homeland–Diaspora Divide 1. The Zionist Transformation 2. Ethical Conundrums 3. Israeli Jewishness for American Eyes 4. Jewish American Literature Makes Aliyah 5. "Judaism in Translation" Conclusion: Entangled Self-Perceptions

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Book SynopsisAmerican and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy." But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary form—when Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by the diaspora? Reading Israel, Reading America explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. Engaging in close readings of translations of iconic novels by the likes of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and Yoram Kaniuk—in particular, the ideologically motivated omissions and additions in the translations, and the works' reception by reviewers and public intellectuals—Asscher decodes the literary encounter between Israeli and American Jews. These discrepancies demarcate an ongoing cultural dialogue around representations of violence, ethics, Zionism, diaspora, and the boundaries between Jews and non-Jews. Navigating the disputes between these "rival siblings" of the Jewish world, Asscher provocatively untangles the cultural relations between Israeli and American Jews.Trade Review"In this illuminating and sharp-eyed work, translation provides a powerful lens to discern what connects and divides Israeli and American Jews. Taking the literary landscape in which they read each other as a rich site of cross-cultural meeting, Asscher shows how this encounter is also shaped and warped by mutual misunderstanding and divergent sociological and political currents."—Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto"This sparkling book gives us real insight into the evolution of Israeli and American Jews' increasingly complex relationship. With impressive literary sophistication and wide-ranging historical knowledge, Omri Asscher reveals how translation has served not only as a bridge but as a site of encounter and even confrontation."—David Myers, University of California, Los Angeles"A timely book; the relationship between Israel and America continues to resonate in 2020, perhaps even more so than it has in the past."—Moshe Weisblum, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"[A] fascinating and original study... Asscher's book is impressive, and it stands out as the first full-length study of literary translation in the context of Israeli-American Jewish relations during the period in question. It will surely serve as an important resource for future scholars in translation studies, Jewish studies, and those focusing on homeland/diaspora relations."—Anthony Wexler, AJS Review"Omri Asscher's first book is surely one of the most interesting and critically consequential studies of Israeli literary culture to appear in the last few years, especially concerning its influence and reception abroad... [M]any readers of Reading Israel, Reading America's early chapters may never be able to fully place their complete trust in a translated Hebrew novel ever again... It cannot be overemphasized how often Asscher's discussion encompasses works that have had a tremendous influence on American readers... [W]e have no other study quite like it and future readers, scholars, and translators seeking to be more mindful of their own identities, biases, and practices, will surely be in his debt."—Ranen Omer-Sherman, Hebrew Studies"Reading Israel, Reading America compellingly and thoroughly explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. [...] Asscher vividly examines the ideology of these cultural agents in the literary field and provides a deep description of the main trends in the translation and integration of Hebrew literature in America and American Jewish literature in Israel in the second half of the twentieth century while also outlining the collective portrait they helped shape in those years in the respective literary fields. [...] [a] fascinating and original project."—Elazar Ben-Lulu, American Jewish History"A comprehensive exploration of the politics of translation.... Asscher's book is a truly fascinating work, a major contribution to the question of how the dynamics of translation enhance our understanding, not only of Israeli and American Jewish literature, but of the respective societies themselves. Omri Asscher is nothing if not erudite in literature and sociology; there was the rare page in Reading Israel, Reading America from which this reviewer did not learn something.... [E]stimable."—Jerome A. Chanes, Contemporary JewryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Translating across the Homeland–Diaspora Divide 1. The Zionist Transformation 2. Ethical Conundrums 3. Israeli Jewishness for American Eyes 4. Jewish American Literature Makes Aliyah 5. "Judaism in Translation" Conclusion: Entangled Self-Perceptions

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