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PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 2 2/17/2011 5:25:19 PM PEOPLE OF THE BODY PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 3 2/17/2011 5:25:19 PM SUNY Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, editor PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 4 2/17/2011 5:25:22 PM PEOPLE OF THE BODY JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTIVE EDITED BY HOWARD EILBERG-SCHWARTZ SI'ATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 5 2/17/2011 5:25:24 PM Cover photo © 1992 C. Herscovici/ARS, N.Y. Acknowledgment is also given to Phaidon Press Ltd. for permission to use Entracte from the publication Magritte by Richard Calvocoressi. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1992 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y. 12246 Production by Diane Ganeles Marketing by Fran Keneston Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data People of the body : Jews and Judaism from an embodied perspective I edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz. p. cm.-{SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-1169-9 <CH : acid-free). -ISBN 0-7914-1170-2 (PB acid-free) 1. Sex-Religious aspects-Judaism. 2. Body, Human-Religious aspect-Judaism. 3. Purity, Ritual-Judaism. 4. Women in Judaism. 5. Judaism- Doctrines. I. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956- 11. Series. BM720.S4P46 1992 296.3'2-dc20 91-35081 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 6 2/17/2011 5:25:27 PM To Louis, Rivie, Marty and Paul friends in-deed and to Ann for the courage to heal PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 7 2/17/2011 5:25:30 PM PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 8 2/17/2011 5:25:33 PM Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: People of the Body 1 1. The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book 17 Howard Eilberg-Schwartz 2. The Garden of Eden and Sexuality in Early Judaism 47 Gary Anderson 3. The Great Fat Massacre: Sex, Death, and the Grotesque Body in the Talmud 69 Daniel Boyarin 4. Mi?vot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy, and Childbirth 101 Chava Weissler 5. Purifying the Body in the Name of the Soul: The Problem of the Body in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah 117 Lawrence Fine 6. Images of God's Feet: Some Observations on the Divine Body in Judaism 143 Elliot R. Wolfson 7. God's Body: Theological and Ritual Roles of Shi'ur Komah 183 Naomi Janowitz 8. The Body Never Lies: The Body in Medieval Jewish Folk Narratives 203 Eli Yasi{ vii PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 9 2/17/2011 5:25:35 PM viii Contents 9. The Jewish Body: A Foot-note 223 Sander Gilman 10. (G)nos(e)ology: The Cultural Construction of the Other 243 Jay Geller 11. Zionism as an Erotic Revolution 283 David Biale 12. Menstruation and Identity: The Meaning of Niddah for Moroccan Women Immigrants to Israel 309 Rahel Wasserfall 13. Why Jewish Princesses Don't Sweat: Desire and Consumption in Postwar American Jewish Culture 329 Riv-Ellen Prell 14. Challenging Male/Female Complementarity: Jewish Lesbians and the Jewish Tradition 361 Rebecca Alpert Contributors 379 Index 383 PEOPLE OF THE BODY: JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM AN EMBODIED PERSPECTNE 10 2/17/2011 5:25:38 PM

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