- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Introduction to Part 1
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1 Food in the Biblical Era -
2. Food in the Rabbinic Era -
3. Food in the Medieval Era -
4. Food in the Modern Era - Introduction to Part 2
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5. A Brief History of Jews and Garlic -
6. Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Food and Jewishness -
7. How Ancient Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians Drank Their Wine -
8. Jews, Schmaltz, and Crisco in the Age of Industrial Food -
9. The Search for Religious Authenticity and the Case of Passover Peanut Oil -
10. How Shabbat Cholent Became a Secular Hungarian Favorite - Introduction to Part 3
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11. Jewish Ethics and Morality in the Garden -
12. Ecological Ethics in the Jewish Community Farming Movement -
13. Bloodshed and the Ethics and Theopolitics of the Jewish Dietary Laws -
14. The Virtues of Keeping Kosher -
15. Jewish Ethics, the Kosher Industry, and the Fall of Agriprocessors -
16. A Satisfying Eating Ethic -
17. The Ethics of Eating Animals - Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
On the one hand, this book about Jewish traditions and food functions as the focal point for examining different forms of Judaism. On the other hand, this book is also a study of what we might call the religious dimensions of food and the case of Judaism serves as an exemplum. The introduction considers the advantages of understanding a religion through the detour of food and asks what counts as “Jewish food.” It argues that food in general provides a wieldy symbolic field that is called upon to construct sex and gender, social status, and race and to distinguish humans from other animals. Religion and food are always intermixed, and examining this intermixture in Judaism can provide some insights into a more-or-less universal human process of making meaning. Insights from Jewish scholars of food or food studies, including Warren Belasco, Noah Yuval Harari, Sidney Mintz, and Marion Nestle, are engaged.
Keywords: Judaism, food, Jewish food, symbolic, sex and gender, race, animals, Warren Belasco, Noah Yuval Harari, Sidney Mintz
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Introduction to Part 1
-
1 Food in the Biblical Era -
2. Food in the Rabbinic Era -
3. Food in the Medieval Era -
4. Food in the Modern Era - Introduction to Part 2
-
5. A Brief History of Jews and Garlic -
6. Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Food and Jewishness -
7. How Ancient Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians Drank Their Wine -
8. Jews, Schmaltz, and Crisco in the Age of Industrial Food -
9. The Search for Religious Authenticity and the Case of Passover Peanut Oil -
10. How Shabbat Cholent Became a Secular Hungarian Favorite - Introduction to Part 3
-
11. Jewish Ethics and Morality in the Garden -
12. Ecological Ethics in the Jewish Community Farming Movement -
13. Bloodshed and the Ethics and Theopolitics of the Jewish Dietary Laws -
14. The Virtues of Keeping Kosher -
15. Jewish Ethics, the Kosher Industry, and the Fall of Agriprocessors -
16. A Satisfying Eating Ethic -
17. The Ethics of Eating Animals - Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index
