Fashioning Jews

180 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h15min.
This volume presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, held at Creighton University in October 2011. The contributors look at all aspects of the intimate relationship between Jews and clothing, through case studies from ancient, medieval, recent, and contemporary history. Papers explore topics ranging from Jewish leadership in the textile industry, through the art of fashion in nineteenth century Vienna, to the use of clothing as a badge of ethnic identity, in both secular and religious contexts.Acknowledgments Editor’s Introduction Contributors Unshod on Holy Ground: Ancient Israel’s “Disinherited” Priesthood, by Christine Palmer How Do You Know a Jew When You See One?: Reflections on Jewish Costume in the Roman World, by Steven Fine From Iconic O to Yellow Hat: Anti-Jewish Distinctive Signs in Renaissance Italy, by Flora Cassen How Should a Rabbi Be Dressed? The Question of Rabbinical Attire in Italy from Renaissance to Emancipation (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries), by Asher Salah The Clerks’ Work: Jews, Clerical Work, and the Birth of the American Garment Industry, by Adam D. Mendelsohn Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d’Ora, and Vienna’s New Woman, by Lisa Silverman Photographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic, by Nils Roemer Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany, by Kerry Wallach Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy, by Ted Merwin “What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing”: Women’s Tallitot, by Rachel Gordan Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity, by Eric K. Silverman