Going to the people

Titel: Going to the people : Jews and the ethnographic impulse / edited by Jeffrey Veidlinger
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Veröffentlicht: Bloomington & Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016
Umfang: x, 351 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780253019141 ; 9780253019080 ; 9780253019165
Buchumschlag
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  • Acknowledgments
  • p. ix
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • History of the Ethnographic Impulse
  • 1
  • Thrice Born; or, Between Two Worlds: Reflexivity and Performance in An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition and Beyond
  • p. 27
  • 2
  • Between Scientific and Political: Jewish Scholars and Russian-Jewish Physical Anthropology in the Fin-de-Siècle Russian Empire
  • p. 45
  • 3
  • "To Study Our Past, Make Sense of Our Present and Develop Our National Consciousness": Lev Shternberg's Comprehensive Program for Jewish Ethnography in the USSR
  • p. 64
  • 4
  • "What Should We Collect?": Ethnography, Local Studies, and the Formation of a Belorussian Jewish Identity
  • p. 85
  • 5
  • Yiddish Folklore and Soviet Ideology during the 1930s
  • p. 100
  • 6
  • After An-sky: I. M. Pul'ner and the Jewish Section of the State Museum of Ethnography in Leningrad
  • p. 119
  • 7
  • "Sacred Collection Work": The Relationship between YIVO and Its Zanders
  • p. 146
  • 8
  • The Last Zamlers: Avrom Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski in Vilna, 1944-1945
  • p. 164
  • Part II
  • Findings from the Field
  • 9
  • Ethnography and Folklore among Polish Jews in Israel: Immigration and Integration
  • p. 177
  • 10
  • The Use of Hebrew and Yiddish in the Rituals of Contemporary Jewry of Bukovina and Bessarabia
  • p. 193
  • 11
  • Food and Faith in the Soviet Shtetl
  • p. 205
  • 12
  • Undzer Rebenyu: Religion, Memory, and Identity in Postwar Moldova
  • p. 219
  • Part III
  • Reflections on the Ethnographic Impulse
  • 13
  • Ex-Soviet Jews: Collective Auto ethnography
  • p. 239
  • 14
  • Family Pictures at an Exhibition: History, Autobiography, and the Museum Exhibit on Jewish Lódz "In Mrs. Goldberg's Kitchen"
  • p. 256
  • 15
  • Seamed Stockings and Ponytails: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Contemporary Hasidic Community
  • p. 282
  • Part IV
  • By Way of Conclusion
  • 16
  • From Function to Frame: The Evolving Conceptualization of Jewish Folklore Studies
  • p. 303
  • List of Contributors
  • p. 333
  • Index
  • p. 337