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About the author
Daniel Monterescu is associate professor of urban anthropology and food studies at the Central European University, Vienna. He is the author of
Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine (finalist of the 2016 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards), coauthor of
Twilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life's Edge and coeditor of
Food and settler Colonialism.Rachel Werczberger is a senior lecturer of anthropology of religion in Hadassah Academic College. She is the author of
Jews in the Age of Authenticity: Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel. She is also the winner of the International Society for the Sociological Study of Religion 2019 best article award.
Contributors Include:
Asher Biemann, Lucine Endelstein, Zvi Gitelman, Ruth Ellen Gruber, Shlomo Guzman-Carmeli, Nissim Leon, Shaul Magid, Daniel Monterescu, Michael Paley, Cara Rock-Singer, Hannah Tzuberi, Rachel Werczberger, Sara Zorandy, Geneviève Zubrzycki
Summary
The trope of a ‘Jewish Renaissance’ has become both a descriptive category of a popular and scholarly discourse across the globe, and a prescriptive model for social action. This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.
