Description
How Judaism and meals are intertwined
Judaism is a faith that’s keen about meals. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated via consuming explicit meals, or round fasting after which consuming explicit meals. By way of fasting, feasting, eating, and noshing, meals infuses the wealthy traditions of Judaism into day by day life. What do the sophisticated legal guidelines of kosher meals imply to Jews? How does meals in Jewish bellies form the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with meals train us about Christianity, Islam, and faith itself? Can meals form the way forward for Judaism?
Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to supply an expansive take a look at how Judaism and meals have been intertwined, each traditionally and as we speak. It additionally grapples with the charged moral debates about how meals selections mirror competing Jewish values about neighborhood, animals, the pure world and the very that means of being human. Encompassing historic, ethnographic, and theoretical viewpoints, and together with contributions devoted to the spiritual dimensions of meals together with garlic, Crisco, peanut oil, and wine, the amount advances the state of each Jewish research and non secular research scholarship on meals.
Bookended with a foreword by the Jewish historian Hasia Diner and an epilogue by the novelist and meals activist Jonathan Safran Foer, Feasting and Fasting offers a useful resource for anybody who hungers to grasp how meals and faith intersect.
From the Writer
Jewish meals throughout the ages
Discover the historical past and ethics of Jewish meals
Writer : NYU Press (January 7, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1479827797
ISBN-13 : 978-1479827794
Merchandise Weight : 1.2 kilos
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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