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Cultures of the Jews
A New HistoryEdited by David Biale
(1200 Pages)Publisher: Schocken, 2002
Twenty-three of the finest scholars of our day archaeologists, cultural historians, literary critics, art historians, folklorists, and historians of religion, all affiliated with major academic institutions in the US, Israel, and France have contributed their insights to Cultures of the Jews. The premise is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered immutable. It has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews lived.
Building their essays on specific cultural artifacts a poem, a letter, a traveler's account, a physical object of everyday or ritual use that were made in the period and locale they study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews from rabbis and scholars to non-elite groups, including women as well as between the Jews and the non-Jewish world.
Divided into three parts, Mediterranean Origins; Diversities of Diaspora; and Modern Encounters.
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