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By Anat Helman

ISBN-10: 0190265426

ISBN-13: 9780190265427

foodstuff is not only a actual necessity but additionally a composite commodity. it really is a part of a verbal exchange procedure, a nonverbal medium for expression, and a marker of precise occasions. Bringing jointly contributions from fourteen historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics, quantity XXVIII of Studies in modern Jewry offers a variety of viewpoints at the sophisticated and complex family among Jews and their foodways. the traditional Jewish neighborhood ritualized and codified the field of nutrients; by way of regulating particular and distinctive culinary legislation, Judaism prolonged and accentuated food's cultural meanings. glossy Jewry is not any longer outlined completely in non secular phrases, but a reduce within the function of faith, together with kashrut observance, doesn't inevitably entail any diminishment of the function of meals. to the contrary, as proven through the essays during this quantity, offerings of nutrients tackle exact value whilst Jewish members and groups face the demanding situations of modernity.

Following an advent by way of Sidney Mintz and concluding with an outline via Richard Wilk, the symposium essays lead the reader from the 20 th century to the twenty first, throughout Europe, the center East, Africa, and North the United States. via sessions of conflict and peace, voluntary immigrations and compelled deportations, wish and abundance, modern Jews use nutrients either for demarcating new borders in speedily altering situations and for remembering a various heritage.

Despite an inclination in conventional Jewish reviews to target "high" tradition and to marginalize "low" tradition, Jews and Their Foodways demonstrates how an exam of people's consuming conduct is helping to provide an explanation for human existence and its variety via at the least the learn of significant occasions, the deeds of well-known humans, and the writings of individual rabbis.

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