Jody Myers, Matt Goldish

Eating at God's Table

How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries, distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox communities? How does food symbolize beliefs, sustain and grow communities, and represent commitment to God? This explores answers and examples from ten years of ethnographic research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780814349540
• ISBN-10: 0814349544
• Artikelnr.: 69869384

Autorenporträt

Jody Myers (1954-2022) served as director of the Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Program at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of books on Tzevi Hirsch Kalischer's messianic activism and the Kabbalah Centre and coeditor of a book on Jewish foodways and ethics. She authored numerous articles on these and other topics including contemporary women's rituals and education.