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Ingber, Judith Brin : SEEING ISRAELI AND JEWISH DANCE

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2011

First edition, original cloth boards with dust jacket. Horizontal 4to, xii, 458 pages. Photographs throughout. ”This volume combines dancers’ own views of their art with scholarly examinations of Jewish dance conducted in Europe, Israel, other Middle East areas, Africa, and the Americas. In seven parts, Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance considers Jewish dance artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; the dance of different Jewish communities, including Hasidic, Yemenite, Kurdish, Ethiopian, and European Jews in many epochs; historical and current Israeli folk dance; and the contrast between Israeli and American modern and post-modern theater dance. Along the way, contributors see dance in ancient texts like the Song of Songs, the Talmud, and Renaissance-era illuminated manuscripts, and plumb oral histories, Holocaust sources, and their own unique views of the subject. A selection of 182 illustrations, including photos, paintings, and film stills, round out this lively volume. Many of the illustrations come from private collections and have never before been published, and they represent such varied sources as a program booklet from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and archival photos from the Israel Government Press Office.” (from inside dust jacket) Series: Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology; Variation: Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology. Contents: Coming into focus / Judith Brin Ingber -- From street urchin to intenational acclaim : a personal testimony / Sara Levi-Tanai -- Unwitting Gastrol : touring the Soviet Union, France, the United States, Canada, Israel, South America, Europe, and back to Poland / Felix Fibich with Judith Brin Ingber -- Jewish culture and identity in the Russian Ballet : the case of Leonid Jacobson / Janice Ross -- Cultural production in Tel Aviv : Yardena Cohen and the National Dance competition of 1937 / Nina S. Spiegel -- "I'm the everybody who's nobody, I'm the nobody who's everbody" : how Sophie Maslow's popular front choreography helped shape American Jewish identity / Josh Perelman -- Sorashim : the roots of Israeli folk dance / Judith Brin Ingber -- Feet on the ground : experiencing Kurdish Jews through their dance / Ayalah Goren-Kadman -- Ethiopians in Israel : their history and their dance from ethnic to contemporary / Dawn Lille -- Wedding dances of a Yemenite Jewish village in Israel : repertoire, values, and social meaning / Shalom Staub -- Extending the traditional wedding dance : Inbal Dance Theatre's Yemenite wedding and the "Dance of the beggars" in Habimah National Theatre's Dkybbuk / Giova Manor -- Bride and her guests : the dance with the separating kerchief / Zvi Friedhaber -- Jewish dancing-masters and "Jewish dance" in Renaissance Italy : Guglielmo Ebreo and beyond / Barbara Sparti -- Vilified or glorified? Nazi versus Zionist views of the Jewish body / Judith Brin Ingber -- Three Hasidic dances : a personal journey / Yehuda Hyman -- Rehearsing for ultimate joy among the Lubavitcher Hasidim : Simchas Bais Hasho'eva in Crown Heights / Jill Gellerman -- Israeli folk dance movement : structural challenges and cultural meanings / Dina Roginsky -- Beyond Israel to New York : how to perform "community" under the impact of globalization / Elke Kaschl -- Serarching for moving metaphors : Jewishness in American modern and postmodoern dance / Naomi M. Jackson -- Naming it Jewish : the dichotomy between Jewish and Israeli dance / Gaby Alder. SUBJECT(S): Dance -- Israel. Folk dancing, Israeli. Jewish dance. Jewish folk dancing. Social aspects. Judaism -- Customs and practices. Juden. Modern dance. Tänzer. Volkstanz. OCLC: 670374929. Color dust jacket intact, like new condition. (HOLO2-159-51)

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