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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gollance, Sonia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subjects:
Dance in literature.
German fiction > History and criticism.
Yiddish fiction > History and criticism.
Jewish dance in literature.
Jews in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Jews > Social life and customs.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > History.
Danse dans la littérature.
Roman allemand > Histoire et critique.
Danses juives dans la littérature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Juifs > Mœurs et coutumes.
Juifs > Acculturation > Histoire.
Jewish dance in literature
Dance in literature
German fiction
Jews > Cultural assimilation
Jews in literature
Jews > Social life and customs
Sex role in literature
Yiddish fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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