Fashioning Jews clothing, culture, and commerce

This volume presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, held at Creighton University in October 2011. The contributors look at all aspects of the intimate relationship between Jews and clothing, through case studies from ancient, medieval, recent, and contemporary histor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press [2013]
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Studies in Jewish civilization ; volume 24.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45943588*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Contributors; Unshod on Holy Ground: Ancient Israel's "Disinherited" Priesthood; How Do You Know a Jew When You See One? Reflections on Jewish Costume in the Roman World; From Iconic O to Yellow Hat: Anti-Jewish Distinctive Signs in Renaissance Italy; How Should a Rabbi Be Dressed? The Question of Rabbinical Attire in Italy from Renaissance to Emancipation (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries); The Clerks' Work: Jews, Clerical Work, and the Birth of the American Garment Industry.
  • Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.