Articles liés à All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat

All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat - Couverture rigide

Livre 115 sur 119: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Efron, John M

 
9781503642607: All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1503642607 ISBN 13 : 9781503642607
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2025

Synopsis

In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set of codified regulations concerning forbidden and permissible meats, highly prescribed methods of killing, and elaborate rules governing consumption, meat is one of the most visible, and gustatory, markers of Jewish distinctness and social separation. It is an object of tangible, touchable, and tastable difference like no other. In All Consuming, historian John M. Efron focuses on the contested culture of meat and its role in the formation of ethnic identities in Germany. To an extent not seen elsewhere in Europe, Germans have identified, thought about, studied, decried, and gladly eaten meat understood to be "Jewish." Expressions of this engagement are found across the cultural landscape—in literature, sculpture, and visual arts—and evident in legal codes and commercial enterprises. Likewise, Jews in Germany have vigorously defended their meats and the culture and rituals surrounding them by educating Germans and Jews alike about their meaning and relevance. Exploring a cultural history that extends some seven hundred years, from the Middle Ages to today, Efron goes beyond a discussion of dietary laws and ritual slaughter to take a broad view of what meat can tell us about German-Jewish identity and culinary culture, Jewish and Christian religious sensibilities, and religious freedom for minorities in Germany. In so doing, he provides a singular window into the rich, fraught, and ultimately tragic history of German Jewry.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

John M. Efron is Koret Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic (2016) and The Jews: A History, now in its third edition (2019), among other books.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1503642607
ISBN 13 
9781503642607
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Pays-Bas