Jews and shoes / [edited by] Edna Nahshon.

Other author Nahshon, Edna.
Format Book
EditionEnglish ed.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Shoes--Social aspects.
Shoes--Psychological aspects.
Clothing and dress--Religious aspects. --Judaism.
Jews--Material culture.
Jews--Folklore.

Contents Jews and shoes / Edna Nahshon -- The biblical shoe : eschewing footwear : the call of Moses as biblical archetype / Ora Horn Prouser -- The halitzah shoe : between female subjugation and symbolic emasculation / Catherine Hezser -- The tombstone shoe : shoe-shaped tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in the Ukraine / Rivka Parciack -- The Israeli shoe : "biblical sandals" and native Israeli identity / Orna Ben-Meir -- The shtetl shoe : how to make a shoe / Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The folkloristic shoe : shoes and shoemakers in Yiddish language and folklore / Robert A. Rothstein -- The Holocaust shoe : untying memory : shoes as Holocaust memorial experience / Jeffrey Feldman -- Wanderer's shoe : the cobbler's penalty : the wandering Jew in search for salvation / Shelly Zer-Zion -- The equalizing shoe : shoes as a symbol of equality in the Jewish society in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century / Ayala Raz -- The fetishist's shoe : "poems of pedal atrocity" : sexuality, ethnicity, and religion in the art of Bruno Schulz / Andrew Ingall -- The artist's shoe : digging into the Jewish roots of shoe-field / Sonya Rapoport -- The theatrical shoe : the utterance of shoemaking : cobblers on the Israeli stage / Dorit Yerushalmi -- The cinematic shoe : Ernst Lubitsch's East European "touch" in Pinkus's Shoe Palace / Jeanette Malkin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008010698
ISBN9781847880499 (cloth)
ISBN1847880495 (cloth)
ISBN9781847880505 (pbk.)
ISBN1847880509 (pbk.)