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Author : Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about what defines Jewishness
Author : Gadi Sagiv
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1512823384
Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Bridging diverse domains such as religious law, mysticism, eschatology, as well as clothing and literature, this book contends that, by way of a protracted process, the color blue has constituted a means through which Jews have understood themselves. In ancient Jewish texts, the term for blue, tekhelet, denotes a dye that serves Jewish ritual purposes. Since medieval times, however, Jews gradually ceased to use tekhelet in their ritual life. In the nineteenth century, however, interest in restoring ancient dyes increased among European scholars. In the Jewish case, rabbis and scientists attempted to reproduce the ancient tekhelet dye. The resulting dyes were gradually accepted in the ritual life of many Orthodox Jews. In addition to being a dye playing a role in Jewish ritual, blue features prominently in the Jewish mystical tradition, in Jewish magic and popular custom, and in Jewish eschatology. Blue is also representative of the Zionist movement, and it is the only chromatic color in the national flag of the State of Israel. Through the study of the changing roles and meanings attributed to the color blue in Judaism, Jewish Blues sheds new light on the power of a visual symbol in shaping the imagination of Jews throughout history. The use of the color blue continues to reflect pressing issues for Jews in our present era, as it has become a symbol of Jewish modernity.
Author : Mary J. Oates
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN :
[Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about what defines Jewishness].
Author : Marji Gold-Vukson
Publisher : Kar-Ben
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761390936
"What is red? Red is the Rosh Hashanah apple we dip in honey." This eye-catching board book explores the holidays through colors.
Author : James McBride
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408832496
From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction: The modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James McBride's literary career. More than two years on The New York Times bestseller list. As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked her about it, she'd simply say 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being! Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' she snapped back. And when James asked about God, she told him 'God is the color of water.' This is the remarkable story of an eccentric and determined woman: a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the Deep South who fled to Harlem, married a black preacher, founded a Baptist church and put twelve children through college. A celebration of resilience, faith and forgiveness, The Color of Water is an eloquent exploration of what family really means.
Author : Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253219272
Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian Peninsula, Asia, Africa, and India. Kaye/Kantrowitz delves into the largely uncharted territory of Jews of color and argues that Jews are an increasingly multiracial people. From publisher description.
Author : George Bornstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0674057015
A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Colors of Zion argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If what they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current constructions of interracial and ethnic relations have overemphasized conflict and division. As George Bornstein says in his Introduction, he chooses “to let the principals speak for themselves.” While acknowledging past conflicts and tensions, Bornstein insists on recovering the “lost connections” through which these groups frequently defined their plights as well as their aspirations. In doing so, he examines a wide range of materials, including immigration laws, lynching, hostile race theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices, and Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like The Melting Pot and Abie’s Irish Rose, canonical novels like Ulysses and Daniel Deronda, music from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry, and early films such as The Jazz Singer. The models of brotherhood that extended beyond ethnocentrism a century ago, the author argues, might do so once again today, if only we bear them in mind. He also urges us to move beyond arbitrary and invidious categories of race and ethnicity.
Author : Yirmeyahu Bindman
Publisher : Resource Publications (CA)
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Noahide Laws
ISBN :
Author : Laurie Grossman
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761357998
What color is Israel? It is black like the mud from the Dead Sea, tan like the wild goats that roam the desert, and gold like the dome of the ancient mosque of Jerusalem. As the meaning behind each color is used to describe the culture and customs of Israel, discover a country of ancient history and rich tradition.
Author : Baruch Sterman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0762790423
For centuries, dyed fabrics ranked among the most expensive objects of the ancient Mediterranean world, fetching up to 20 times their weight in gold. Huge fortunes were made from and lost to them, and battles were fought over control of the industry. The few who knew the dyes’ complex secrets carefully guarded the valuable knowledge. The Rarest Blue tells the amazing story of tekhelet, or hyacinth blue, the elusive sky-blue dye mentioned 50 times in the Hebrew Bible. The Minoans discovered it; the Phoenicians stole the technique; Cleopatra adored it; and Jews—obeying a Biblical commandment to affix a single thread of the radiant color to the corner of their garments—risked their lives for it. But with the fall of the Roman Empire, the technique was lost to the ages. Then, in the nineteenth century, a marine biologist saw a fisherman smearing his shirt with snail guts, marveling as the yellow stains turned sky blue. But what was the secret? At the same time, a Hasidic master obsessed with reviving the ancient tradition posited that the source wasn’t a snail at all but a squid. Bitter fighting ensued until another rabbi discovered that one of them was wrong—but had an unscrupulous chemist deliberately deceived him? Baruch Sterman brilliantly recounts the complete, amazing story of this sacred dye that changed the color of history.