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Title A Jew's best friend? : the image of the dog throughout Jewish history / edited by Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman and Rakefet Zalashik
Published Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 scholars specializing in various disciplinesprovide a unique cross-cultural, trans-national, diachronic perspective. An important theme is the constant tension between domination/control and partnership that underpins the relationship of humans to animals, as well as the connection between Jewish societies and their broader host cultures. A public increasingly interested in cultural history in general and Jewish history in particular will benefit from the diverse perspectives provided herein
Notes The Lucius N. Littauer Book Fund
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Dogs -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Dogs in the Bible.
Dogs -- Social aspects
Human-animal relationships -- Religious aspects.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Dogs -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Dogs in the Bible
Dogs -- Social aspects
Human-animal relationships -- Religious aspects
Jews -- Social life and customs
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Lieberman, Phillip I., 1970-
Zalashik, Rakefet, 1973-
LC no. 2012011214
ISBN 9781782840510
1782840516
9781782840497
1782840494