The Many Ways Jews Loved

A History from Printed Words and Images

Constance Harris (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7818-4 (ISBN)

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While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways in which Jewish history has been shaped by the everyday experience of love. It examines erotic poetry, sensual art and literature, and biblical and rabbinic stories about lust. It reviews the ways in which Jewish law has both encouraged and regulated sexual interaction and studies the diversity of Jewish attitudes toward such relationships, found in a vast array of works whose authors and artists often speak to the confusion and failure of love while also finding a purpose in its pursuance. It tells the stories of those people who revel in love and of others who remember love and grieve in its absence.

Constance Harris, formerly an active part of the Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles, served as president of the Women’s Conference and organized the Women’s Interfaith Committee. She lives in Walnut Creek, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Todd M. Endelman

Introduction

Part I—The Way Jews Loved Each Other

1. Overview Over Time

2. Marriage: Good, Better and Not So Good

3. The Bible In and Out of Love

4. The Family: More Questions Than Answers

5. The Golden Middle Ages

6. Midrash and Magic

7. The Many Languages of Love

8. Age of Reason—Challenge of Tradition

9. Chasing Modernity

10. Tracing Modernity

11. How God Coped with Sex

Part II—The Way Jews Loved Tradition

12. Essen un Fressen

13. Artisanship and Crafts

14. Laughing at Love

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	77 photos, glossary, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4766-7818-9 / 1476678189
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7818-4 / 9781476678184
Zustand	Neuware