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Zusatztext This book provides valuable lenses through which to examine the shoe in Jewish cultural and religious history: as the social biography of an ever-present object, as an historic examination of Jews in society, as a themed sampling of significant Jewish literary and artistic expressions, and as a material entrée into worlds of immateriality. Nashon moves the reader through cultural histories, disparate lands, and artistic imaginations to track the footprints that Jews have made on the history of the shoe. Informationen zum Autor EDNA NAHSHON, on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, has recently been appointed a Visiting Skirball Fellow at Oxford University. She specializes in the field of Jewish performance studies and has written extensively on Yiddish theatre. Her work has appeared in, among other places, American National Biography , The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, Jewish American History , and Di Froyen: Women and Yiddish . Vorwort Takes a look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers, and barefootedness in Jewish experience. This book shows how shoes convey theological, social, and economic concepts, and as such are subjects for inquiry within a range of cultural, artistic, and historic contexts. Zusammenfassung Takes a look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers, and barefootedness in Jewish experience. This book shows how shoes convey theological, social, and economic concepts, and as such are subjects for inquiry within a range of cultural, artistic, and historic contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Jews and Shoes, Edna Nahshon Part 1: Religion and the Bible 2. The Biblical Shoe: 'Eschewing Footwear: The Call of Moses as Biblical Archetype', Ora Prouser 3. The Halitzah Shoe: Between Female Subjugation and Symbolic Emasculation, Catherine Hezser 4. The Tombstone Shoe: Shoe-Shaped Tombstones in Jewish Cemeteries in the Ukraine, Rivka Parciack 5. The Israeli Shoe: Biblical Sandals and Native Israeli Identity, Orna Ben-Meir Part 2: Memories and Commemoration 6. The Shtetl Shoe: How to Make a Shoe, Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 7. The Folkloristic Shoe: Shoes and Shoemakers in Yiddish Language and Folklore, Robert A. Rothstein 8. The Holocaust Shoe: Untying Memory: Shoes as Holocaust Memorial Experience, Jeffrey Feldman Part 3: Ideology and Economics 9. Wanderer's Shoe: The Cobbler's Penalty: The Wandering Jew in Search for Salvation, Shelly Zer-Zion 10. 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 Part 4: Theatre, Art and Film 11. The Fetishist's Shoe: Poems of Pedal Atrocity: Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Art of Bruno Schulz, Andrew Ingall 12. The Artist's Shoe: Digging Into the Jewish Roots of Shoe-Field, Sonya Rapoport 13. The Theatrical Shoe: The Utterance of Shoemaking: Cobblers on the Israeli Stage, Dorit Yerushalmi 14. The Cinematic Shoe: Ernst Lubitsch's East European Touch in Pinkus's Shoe Palace, Jeanette Malkin...
