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Life in Citations

Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

By: Ruth Tsoffar

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Life in Citations

Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

By: Ruth Tsoffar

In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew Israeli artists that respond to them. Together they read as a modern commentary on life with text, or even life under the rule of its verses, to answer questions like How can we explain the fascination and intense identification of Israelis with the Bible? What does it mean to live in such close proximity with the Bible, and What kind of story can such a life tell?

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Routledge

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1000477894

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The Stains of Culture

An Ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish Women

By: Ruth Tsoffar

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The Stains of Culture

An Ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish Women

By: Ruth Tsoffar

A minority within Judaism, the Karaites are known as a 'reading community'-one that looks to the Bible as the authority in all areas of life, including intimate relations and hygiene. Here Ruth Tsoffar considers how Egyptian Kariates of the San Francisco Bay Area define themselves, within both California culture and Judaism, in terms of the Bible and its bearing on their bodies. Women's perspectives play a large role in this ethnography; it is their bodies that are especially regulated by rules of cleanliness and purity to the point where their biological cycles-menstruation, procreation, childbirth, lactation-determine their place in the community. As Tsoffar notes, the female body itself becomes a richly encoded text that reveals much about the Karaites' attitudes toward the interrelated issues of gender, sex, food, procreation, sacred traditions, time and space, as well as identity. The author illuminates the cultural strategies used by Karaite women to sustain their religious ideologies yet find personally meaningful ways of reading. The Karaites have survived since at least the 8th century by continually contemporizing their culture. Through a study of the rich, animated ritual experience of niddah (menstruation and purity codes in Leviticus), we see how the Karaite women seek to imagine and narrate a new history of purity through their bodies. The Stains of Culture presents issues of meaning and interpretation in a way valuable to students of women's studies, anthropology, minority cultural production, scholars of religion and Judaism, especially to those interested in exploring Judaism's diversity.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814332234

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Life in Citations

Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

By: Ruth Tsoffar

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Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

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The Stains of Culture

An Ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish Women

By: Ruth Tsoffar

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Keeping Women in Their Digital Place

The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online

By: Ruth Tsuria

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Keeping Women in Their Digital Place

The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online

By: Ruth Tsuria

Since its inception, the internet has been theorized as a democratic force, a public sphere in which hierarchies are flattened. But the internet is not a neutral tool; it has the power to amplify and mirror certain opinions and, as a result, can concretize social norms. So what happens when matters of religious practice and gender identity collide in these—often unregulated—online spaces? In Keeping Women in Their Digital Place, Ruth Tsuria explores how Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States and Israel have used “digital enclaves”—online safe havens created specifically for their denominations—to renegotiate traditional values in the face of taboo discourse encountered online. Combining a personal narrative with years of qualitative analysis, Tsuria examines how discussions in blogs and forums and on social media navigate issues of modesty, dating, marriage, intimacy, motherhood, and feminism. Unpacking the complexity of religious uses of the internet, Tsuria shows how the participatory qualities of digital spaces have been used both to challenge accepted norms and—more pervasively—to reinforce traditional and even extreme attitudes toward gender and sexuality. Original and engaging, this book will appeal to media, feminist, and religious studies scholars and students, particularly those interested in religion in the digital age and Orthodox Jewish communities.

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Penn State Press

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0271097957

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New Jewish Feminism

Probing the Past, Forging the Future

By: Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

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New Jewish Feminism

Probing the Past, Forging the Future

By: Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

Jewish Feminism: What Have We Accomplished? What Is Still to Be Done? “When you are in the middle of the revolution you can’t really plan the next steps ahead. But now we can. The book is intended to open up a dialogue between the early Jewish feminist pioneers and the young women shaping Judaism today.... Read it, use it, debate it, ponder it.” —from the Introduction This empowering anthology looks at the growth and accomplishments of Jewish feminism and what that means for Jewish women today and tomorrow. It features the voices of women from every area of Jewish life—the Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Orthodox and Jewish Renewal movements; rabbis, congregational leaders, artists, writers, community service professionals, academics, and chaplains, from the United States, Canada, and Israel—addressing the important issues that concern Jewish women: Women and Theology Women, Ritual and Torah Women and the Synagogue Women in Israel Gender, Sexuality and Age Women and the Denominations Leadership and Social Justice

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Turner Publishing Company

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1580236502

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9781580236508

A Separate People

Jewish Women in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt in the Sixteenth Century

By: Ruth Lamdan

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A Separate People

Jewish Women in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt in the Sixteenth Century

By: Ruth Lamdan

This major new contribution to the history of women examines the special status accorded to women in the Jewish communities of the Eastern Mediterranean provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Topics examined include their daily life and the social norms governing them, polygamy, divorce, child marriage, and the position of female slaves. Based on a detailed analysis of Hebrew and Arabic manuscript sources, legal and other, this first study of the subject in English opens up an almost unknown world of women to the modern researcher.

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Brill's Series in Jewish Studi

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9004117474

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Book's by Ruth Tsoffar

Life in Citations

Life in Citations

The Stains of Culture

The Stains of Culture

Life in Citations

Life in Citations

The Stains of Culture

The Stains of Culture

Keeping Women in Their Digital Place

Keeping Women in Their Digital Place

New Jewish Feminism

New Jewish Feminism

A Separate People

A Separate People

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