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Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist's Lens

From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to the Big Apple, the Closet to the Bimah

Moshe Shokeid author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Academic Studies Press

Published:30th Sep '09

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This book presents a list of chapters that introduce a life-long career of ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist. It presents Moshe Shokeid's explorations, discoveries, and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life which he closely observed in three major arenas of contemporary Jewish life: Moroccan Jews who immigrated from Atlas Mountains to become farmers in the semi-arid Negev fields; Israeli-born citizens, who left their homes to start a new life in America; and, finally, American gay Jews who chose to preserve their cultural heritage and maintain spiritual synagogue life as part of the mosaic of New York Jews. The panorama of Shokeid's ethnographic journeys ends with a few chapters that display his methods of research and his personal experiences as participant observer among his fellow Jews in their unique path to promote their social and spiritual aspirations.

"The editorial decision to compile all these ethnographic essays into three 'journeys' was a well-taken one…In the end, the book Three Jewish Journeys is one intellectual journey very worth taking." -- Yarden Enav, Ariel University * Journal of the Roayal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) *
"Especially from the perspective of identity politics, the name that Shokeid adopted following his pioneer fieldwork points to a sense of commitment and empathy that hindsight critics have entirely missed." -- Yoram Bilu, Anthropology and Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

ISBN: 9781934843369

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 720g

400 pages