Full Description
Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance documents and celebrates the significant impact of Jewish identity on a variety of communities and the dance world writ large. Focusing on North America, Europe, and Israel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this Handbook highlights the sometimes surprising, often hidden and overlooked Jewish resonances within a range of styles from modern and postmodern dance to folk dance and flamenco. Privileging the historically marginalized voices of scholars, performers, and instructors the Handbook considers the powerful role of dance in addressing difference, such as between American and Israeli Jewish communities. In the process, contributors advocate values of social justice, like Tikkun Olam (repair of the world), debate, and humor, exploring the fascinating and potentially uncomfortable contradictions and ambiguities that characterize this robust area of research.
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Liz Lerman
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Naomi M. Jackson
Part I: Honoring and Transforming Traditions
Chapter 1. Into the Light
Philip Szporer
Chapter 2. (Not Just) Az der rebbe tantst: Toward an Inclusive History of Hasidic Dance
Jill Gellerman
Chapter 3. Felix Fibich and Torqueing as a Central Motif in Modern Male Subjectivity
Naomi M. Jackson, Joel Gereboff, and Steven Weintraub
Chapter 4. Send Off
Jesse Zaritt
Chapter 5. From Victimized to Victorious: Re-Forming Post-Holocaust Jewish Embodied Identity through Dance
Gdalit Neuman
Chapter 6. Mapping a Mizrahi Presence in Israeli Concert Dance: Representations and Receptions of Yemenite Jewish Life on Stage from 1920 to the Present
Nina S. Spiegel
Chapter 7. From the Other Side: An Interview with Ethiopian-Israeli Dance Artist
Dege Feder
Chapter 8. Believing Body, Dancing Body: Dance and Faith in the Religious Sector in Israel
Talia Perlshtein, Reuven Tabull, and Rachel Sagee
Chapter 9. My Body is Torah
Efrat Nehama
Chapter 10. Trance-Forming the Nation: Trance-Dance Parties for Orthodox Singles in Israel
Joshua Schmidt
Chapter 11. HaMapah/The Map: Navigating Intersections
Adam W. McKinney
Part II: Making the Invisible Visible
Chapter 12. I, You, We: Dancing Interconnections and Jewish Betweens
Hannah Schwadron and Victoria Marks
Chapter 13. Then in What Sense Are You a Jewish Artist? Conflicts of the
