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A Jew's best friend? : the image of the dog throughout Jewish history /
A discussion on the specific cultural manifestations of the relationship between dogs and Jews, from ancient times to the present, this work covers a geographical range extending from the Middle East through Europe and to North America, while the contributorsall of whom are senior university scholar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton ; Portland, Or. :
Sussex Academic Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter Two: From Unclean Species to Man's Best Friend: Dogs in the Biblical, Mishnah, and Talmud Periods
- Sophia Menache; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Dog Cult in Persian Period Judea
- Meir Edrey; Chapter Three: Good Dog-Bad Dog: Jews and Their Dogs in Ancient Jewish Society
- Joshua Schwartz; Chapter Four: Uncultured, Uncontrolled, and Untrustworthy-Yet Protective and Productive!: The Dog in the Mindset of the Jews of Medieval Islam
- Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman.
- Chapter Five: The Bread, the Children, and the Dogs
- Kenneth StowChapter Six: "If a Jew Has a Dog ... ": Dogs in Yiddish Proverbs
- Robert A. Rothstein; Chapter Seven: A Dog without a People for People without a Dog: Rudolphina Menzel and Canines in Canaan
- Susan M. Kahn; Chapter Eight: Only Yesterday: A Hebrew Dog and the Colonial Dynamics in Pre-Mandate Palestine
- Uri S. Cohen; Chapter Nine: An Israeli Heroine?: .Azit the Canine Paratrooper
- Rakefet J. Zalashik; Chapter Ten: Adam Resurrected: A "Dog's" Journey from the Circus to Asylum
- Iftah Biran.
- Chapter Eleven: Taking the Circumcised Dog by the Throat: A Critical Review of Contemporary Rituals for Dogs in America
- Aubrey L. GlazerChapter Twelve: Teaching the Jews and the Dog: A Pedagogical Essay
- Katharine Baker and Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman; The Contributors; Index.