Eating At God''s Table - How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities

How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries, distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox communities? How does food symbolize beliefs, sustain and grow communities, and represent commitment to God? This explores answers and examples from ten years of ethnographic research.

About the author

Jody Myers (1954-2022) served as director of the Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Program at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of books on Tzevi Hirsch Kalischer's messianic activism and the Kabbalah Centre and coeditor of a book on Jewish foodways and ethics. She authored numerous articles on these and other topics including contemporary women's rituals and education.

Summary

How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries, distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox communities? How does food symbolize beliefs, sustain and grow communities, and represent commitment to God? This explores answers and examples from ten years of ethnographic research.

Product details

• Authors: Matt Goldish, Jody Myers, Jody Goldish Myers
• Publisher: WAYNE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.11.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9780814349540
• ISBN: 978-0-8143-4954-0
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism