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American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life—however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice and collective identity, emerges as a central fact of contemporary Jewish experience in Harvey E. Goldberg's multifaceted account of how Jews celebrate and observe the cycles of life. A leading anthropologist of Jewish culture, Goldberg draws on his own experience as well as classic sources and the latest research to create a nuanced portrait of Jewish rituals and customs that balances the reality of "ordinary Jews" with the authority of tradition. Looking at classic rites of passage such as circumcision and marriage, along with emerging life-milestone practices like pilgrimage and identity-seeking tourism, Jewish Passages aptly reflects the remarkable cultural and religious diversity within Judaism. This work offers a new view of Jewish culture and history with the individual firmly situated at their center by blending anecdote and historical vignettes with rabbinic, midrashic, and anthropological insights; by exploring Sephardi and Ashkenazi traditions as well as modern ideologies; and by bringing into sharp relief the activities of women and relations with Gentile neighbors. As such, this book provides a unique window on the particulars—and the significance—of personal and communal acts of identification among Jews past, present, and future

Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Reflections on the Mutual Relevance of Anthropology and Judaic Studies -- Content -- History and Patterning -- Introduction to Part I -- The Laws of Mixture: An Anthropological Study in Halakhah -- The Consumption of Sabbatical Year Produce in Biblicaland Rabbinic Literature -- Torah and Children: Some Symbolic Aspects of the Reproduction of Jews and Judaism -- Judaism in America -- Introduction to Part II -- Life Not Death in Venice": Its Second Life -- Sacred Categories and Social Relations: The Visibility and Invisibility of Gender in an American Jewish Community -- Sacred Categories and Social Relations: The Visibility and Invisibility of Gender in an American Jewish Community -- Drama on a Table: The Bobover Hasidim Piremshbpiyl -- Judaism in Israel -- Introduction to Part III -- Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism -- The Symbolic Inscription of Zionist Ideology in the Space of Eretz Yisrael: Why the Native Israeli is called Tsabar -- Dreams and the Wishes of the Saint -- Back Matter -- Epilogue: Text in Jewish Society and the Challenge of Comparison -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover.

Le défi ethnographique de la religiosité masorti parmi les juifs d'Israël L'ethnographie n'a guère porté attention à la vie religieuse des Israéliens appelés masorti – traditionnels – qui résistent à être étiquetés comme « religieux » ou « non religieux ». Diverses rencontres avec des juifs originaires de Lybie, en relation avec la place des femmes dans les rituels publics, montrent la variété des orientations masorti . La vie masorti est aussi mise au défi par les normes orthodoxes, un processus en cours qui invite à d'autres plongées ethnographiques.

Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth. Carol Delaney. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1998.334 pp.

Dire que la Bible constitue le texte fondateur de la société juive est une tautologie. Mais cette évidence cache de nombreuses questions. Les textes qui composent la Bible ne sont-ils que le reflet de créations littéraires passées, ou bien le texte biblique est-il devenu, au gré des générations et des pays, une force active qui a modelé la société juive ? Les juifs considéraient les livres bibliques comme constitutifs de leurs institutions et de leur mode de vie ; pourtant ils ont vécu pendant des siècles comme une société politiquement dépendante de civilisations qui prétendaient soit détenir des interprétations de ces livres qui supplantaient les leurs (le christianisme), soit que les juifs n'avaient plus accès à une version exacte de leurs propres Écritures (l'islam).