Painted pomegranates and needlepoint rabbis : how Jews craft resilience and create community / Jodi Eichler-Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eichler-Levine, Jodi, author.

Series:

Where religion lives.

North Carolina scholarship online.

Where religion lives

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handicraft--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Handicraft.

Jewish crafts--United States.

Jewish crafts.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

Jewish Americans, many of them women, are creating ritual challah covers and prayer shawls, ink, clay, or wood pieces, and other articles for family, friends, or Jewish charities. But they are doing much more, Eichler-Levine shows: armed with perhaps only a needle and thread, they are reckoning with Jewish identity in a fragile and dangerous world. The work of these crafters embodies a vital Judaism that may lie outside traditional notions of Jewishness, but, as Eichler-Levine argues, these crafters are as much engaged as any Jews in honoring and nurturing the fortitude, memory, and community of the Jewish people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 11, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

979-88-908594-8-8

979-88-908594-9-5

1-4696-6063-6

OCLC:

1198015883