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It could lead to dancing : mixed-sex dancing and Jewish modernity /

"Dances and balls appear throughout literature as a place for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships: as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest, dance scenes provide an opportunity for writers to criticize societal expectations about courts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gollance, Sonia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Colección:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : the space of the dance floor
  • The choreography of acculturation
  • How Jews learned to dance
  • The tavern : Jewish participation in rural leisure culture
  • The ballroom : questions of admission and exclusion
  • The wedding : celebratory ritual and social enforcement
  • The dance hall : commercial leisure culture and American sexual mores
  • Epilogue : "What comes from men and women dancing."