Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Anthropology, History, and the Remaking of Jewish Studies 1
5. PART I. AUTHORITY
6. Chapter 1. “How Do You Know That I Am a Jew?”: Authority, Cultural Identity, and the Shaping of Postwar American Judaism 31
7. Chapter 2. Rabbis and Their (In)Famous Magic: Classical Foundations, Medieval and Early Modern Reverberations 58
8. Chapter 3. Dreamers in Paradise: The Rise and Fall of a New Holy Site in Beit She’an, Israel 80
9. Chapter 4. Words, Images, and Magic: The Protection of the Bride and Bridegroom in Jewish Marriage Contracts 102
10. PART II. DIASPORA
11. Chapter 5. The Dislocation of the Temple Vessels: Mobile Sanctity and Rabbinic Rhetorics of Space 135
12. Chapter 6. Sacred Space, Local History, and Diasporic Identity: The Graves of the Righteous in Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz 147
13. Chapter 7. Detours in a “Hidden Land”: Samuel Romanelli’s Masa’ ba‘rav 164
14. Chapter 8. The Rhetoric of Rescue: “Salvage Immigration” Narratives in Israeli Culture 185
15. PART III. TRADITION
16. Chapter 9. Judaism and Tradition: Continuity, Change, and Innovation 207
17. Chapter 10. In the Path of Our Fathers: On Tradition and Time from Jerusalem to Babylonia and Beyond 238
18. Chapter 11. Prayer, Literacy, and Literary Memory in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Europe 250
19. Chapter 12. A Temple in Your Kitchen: Hafrashat H˙ allah—The Rebirth of a Forgotten Ritual as a Public Ceremony 271
20. Chapter 13. Judaism and the Idea of Ancient Ritual Theory 294
21. Epilogue 318
22. Notes 335
23. List of Contributors 414
24. Index 417
25. Acknowledgments 433