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Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Hardcover)
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Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Total price: R3,994
Discovery Miles: 39 940
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This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish
identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book
rest squarely on the much-quoted insight: 'you are what you eat.'
But this book goes beyond that simple truism to recognise that you
are not only what you eat, but also how, when, where and with whom
you eat. This book begins at the beginning - with the Torah - and
then follows the history of Jewish eating until the modern age and
even into our own day. Along the way, it travels from Jewish homes
in the Holy Land and Babylonia (Iraq) to France and Spain and
Italy, then to Germany and Poland and finally to the United States
of America. It looks at significant developments in Jewish eating
in all ages: in the ancient Near East and Persia, in the Classical
age, throughout the Middle Ages and into Modernity. It pays careful
attention to Jewish eating laws (halakha) in each time and place,
but it does not stop there: it also looks for Jews who bend and
break the law, who eat like Romans or Christians regardless of the
law and who develop their own hybrid customs according to their own
'laws', whatever Jewish tradition might tell them. In this
colourful history of Jewish eating, we get more than a taste of how
expressive and crucial eating choices have always been.
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