Research Catalog

Title

Feasting and fasting : the history and ethics of Jewish food / edited by Aaron S. Gross, Jody Myers, and Jordan D. Rosenblum ; with a foreword by Hasia Diner and an afterword by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gross, Aaron S.
• Myers, Jody Elizabeth, 1954-2022
• Rosenblum, Jordan, 1979-
• Diner, Hasia R.
• Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-

Description

xvi, 376 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with food teach us about Christianity, Islam, and religion itself? Can food shape the future of Judaism? Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined, both historically and today. It also grapples with the charged ethical debates about how food choices reflect competing Jewish values about community, animals, the natural world and the very meaning of being human. Encompassing historical, ethnographic, and theoretical viewpoints, and including contributions dedicated to the religious dimensions of foods including garlic, Crisco, peanut oil, and wine, the volume advances the state of both Jewish studies and religious studies scholarship on food. Bookended with a foreword by the Jewish historian Hasia Diner and an epilogue by the novelist and food activist Jonathan Safran Foer, Feasting and Fasting provides a resource for anyone who hungers to understand how food and religion intersect." --

Subjects

• Jewish cooking
• Jews > Food
• Jewish ethics
• History
• Jewish cooking > History
• Jews > Food > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Hasia Diner -- Introduction / Aaron S. Gross -- Part 1: History. Introduction to Part 1 / Jody Myers -- Food in the biblical era / Elaine Adler Goodfriend -- Food in the rabbinc era / David C. Kraemer -- Food in the medieval era / Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus -- Food in the modern era / Jody Myers -- Part 2: Food and culture. Introduction to Part 2 / Jordan D. Rosenblum -- A Brief history of Jews and Garlic / Jordan D. Rosenblum -- Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives on food and Jewishness / David M. Friedenreich -- How ancient Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christian drank their wine / Susan Marks -- Jews, Schmaltz, and Crisco in the age of industrial food / Rachael B. Gross -- The seach for religious authenticity and the case of passover peanut oil / Zev Eleff -- How Shabbat Cholent became secular Hungarian favorite / Katalin Franciska Rac -- Part 3: Ethics. Introduction Part 3 / Aaron S. Gross -- Jewish ethics and morality in the garden / Jennifer A. Thompson -- Ecological ethics in the Jewish community : farming movement / Adrienne Krone -- Bloodshed and the ethics and theopolitics of the Jewish dietary laws / Daniel H. Weiss -- The virtues of keeper kosher / Elliot Ratzman -- Jewish ethics, the kosher industry, and the fall of agriprocessors / Moses Pava -- A satisfying eating ethics / Jonathan K. Crane -- The ethics of eating animals / Aaron S. Gross -- Afterword / Jonathan Safran Foer.

Call Number

JFE 20-4879

ISBN

• 9781479899333
• 147989933X
• 9781479827794
• 1479827797

LCCN

• 2019015755
• 40029719647

OCLC

1091844762

Title

Feasting and fasting : the history and ethics of Jewish food / edited by Aaron S. Gross, Jody Myers, and Jordan D. Rosenblum ; with a foreword by Hasia Diner and an afterword by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Publisher

New York : New York University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gross, Aaron S., editor.

Myers, Jody Elizabeth, 1954-2022 editor.

Rosenblum, Jordan, 1979- editor.

Diner, Hasia R., writer of foreword.

Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- writer of afterword.

Other Standard Identifier

40029719647

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4879