ISBN:
9781847880505
,
9781847880499
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 226 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
English ed
Year of publication:
2008
DDC:
391.4/13
Keywords:
Shoes Social aspects
;
Shoes Psychological aspects
;
Clothing and dress Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Jews Material culture
;
Jews Folklore
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Juden
;
Schuh
;
Kultur
;
Brauch
;
Religion
Description / Table of Contents:
Jews and shoes / Edna Nahshon -- The biblical shoe : "Eschewing footwear: the call of Moses as biblical archetype" / Ora Prouser -- The halitzah shoe : between female subjugation and symbolic emasculation / Catherine Hezser -- The tombstone shoe : shoe-shaped tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in the Ukraine / Rivka Parciack -- The Israeli shoe : "biblical sandals" and native Israeli identity / Orna Ben-Meir -- The shtetl shoe : how to make a shoe / Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The folkloristic shoe : shoes and shoemakers in Yiddish language and folklore / Robert A. Rothstein -- The Holocaust shoe : untying memory : shoes as Holocaust memorial experience / Jeffrey Feldman -- Wanderer's shoe : the cobbler's penalty : the wandering Jew in search for salvation / Shelly Zer-Zion -- The equalizing shoe : shoes as a symbol of equality in the Jewish society in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century / Ayala Raz -- The fetishist's shoe : "poems of pedal atrocity" : sexuality, ethnicity, and religion in the art of Bruno Schulz / Andrew Ingall -- The artist's shoe : digging into the Jewish roots of shoe-field / Sonya Rapoport -- The theatrical shoe : the utterance of shoemaking : cobblers on the Israeli stage / Dorit Yerushalmi -- The cinematic shoe : Ernst Lubitsch's East European "touch" in Pinkus's Shoe Palace / Jeanette Malkin
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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