A Cultural History of Jewish Dress (Dress, Body, Culture) - Image 1

£75.00

Bloomsbury A Cultural History of Jewish Dress (Dress, Body, Culture)

Name: A Cultural History of Jewish Dress (Dress, Body, Culture)
Brand: Bloomsbury
Price: 75.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

History

Price History & Forecast

Last 42 days • 42 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 42 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £75 (42 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £75 - £75

Price levels: 1 different prices over 42 days

Description

Product Description A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of how Jews have been distinguished by their appearance from Ancient Israel to today. For centuries Jews have dressed in distinctive ways to communicate their devotion to God, their religious identity, and the proper earthly roles of men and women. This lively work explores the rich history of Jewish dress, examining how Jews and non-Jews alike debated and legislated Jewish attire in different places, as well as outlining the big debates on dress within the Jewish community today. Focusing on tensions over gender, ethnic identity and assimilation, each chapter discusses the meaning and symbolism of a specific era or type of Jewish dress. What were biblical and rabbinic fashions? Why was clothing so important to immigrant Jews in America? Why do Hassidic Jews wear black? When did yarmulkes become bar mitzvah souvenirs? The book also offers the first analysis of how young Jewish adults today announce on caps, shirts, and even undergarments their striving to transform Jewishness from a religious and historical heritage into an ethnic identity that is hip, racy, and irreverent. Fascinating and accessibly written, A Cultural History of Jewish Dress will appeal to anybody interested in the central role of clothing in defining Jewish identity. Review "Anthropologist Silverman (Wheelock College) provides a valuable update to the classic A History of Jewish Costume Dress...Silverman gives intriguing insights for Jews and non-Jews into how tensions within and without some US Jewish congregations/communities play out. Summing up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." --B.B. Chico, Regis University, CHOICE"With such a wide range of culturally significant clothing on display in this volume (helpfully accompanied by a well curated glossary and other aids), what's not to like? ... On balance, Silverman's work is a joy to read and to look at. It is also a model of cultural analysis and represents in many of its conclusions an authoritative voice." - Leonard Greenspoon, Museum Anthropology Review About the Author Eric Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the American Studies and Human Development department, Wheelock College, Boston, USA and a Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, USA.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1845205138
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Fashion > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 January 2013
Listed Since: 17 October 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury A Cultural History of Jewish Dress (Dress, Body, Culture)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Cultures of the Jews: A New History

The Jewish Wardrobe: From the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

T&T Clark - Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity Book

Dress Codes: Meanings And Messages In American Culture

Body Dressing: v. 24 (Dress, Body, Culture)

The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism (The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion)

Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice

Jewish Cultural Studies (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)

Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

Dress and Ideology: Fashioning Identity from Antiquity to the Present

No Small Matter: Features of Jewish Childhood (Studies in Contemporary Jewry)

Fashion History (Dress, Body, Culture): A Global View

Dress and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible: “For All Her Household Are Clothed in Crimson”: 679 (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture

The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present

The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity: 2 (New Perspectives on Jewish Studies)

Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others

The Economy in Jewish History: New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life

Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalisation

Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity (Dress, Body, Culture)

Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land (Judaism and Jewish Life)

The Translated Jew: German Jewish Culture Outside the Margins (Cultural Expressions of World War II)