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Judaism Viewed from Within and from Without presents three themes. The first applies anthropological analyses to classic textual material in Judaism, the second presents studies of different expressions of Jewish life in America, while the third portrays varieties of Judaism among different cultural groups in contemporary Israel.

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  1. cover
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  1. fm
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction: Reflections on the Mutual Relevance of Anthropology and Judaic Studies
  2. pp. 1-44
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  1. Part I. History and Patterning; Introduction to Part I
  2. pp. 45-54
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  1. CHAPTER 1. The Laws of Mixture: An Anthropological Study in Halakhah
  2. pp. 55-74
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  1. CHAPTER 2. The Consumption of Sabbatical Year Produce in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature
  2. pp. 75-106
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  1. CHAPTER 3. Torah and Children: Symbolic Aspects of the Reproduction of Jews and Judaism
  2. pp. 107-130
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  1. Part II. Judaism in America; Introduction to Part II
  2. pp. 131-142
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  1. CHAPTER 4. "Life, Not Death in Venice": Its Second Life
  2. pp. 143-170
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  1. CHAPTER 5. Sacred Categories and Social Relations: The Visibility and Invisibility of Gender in an American Jewish Community
  2. pp. 171-194
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  1. CHAPTER 6. Drama on a Table: The Bobover Hasidim Piremshpiyl
  2. pp. 195-218
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  1. Part III. Judaism in Israel; Introduction to Part III
  2. pp. 219-234
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  1. CHAPTER 7. Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism
  2. pp. 235-256
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  1. CHAPTER 8. The Symbolic Inscription of Zionist Ideology in the Space of Eretz Israel: Why the Native Israeli is Called Tsabar
  2. pp. 257-284
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  1. CHAPTER 9. Dreams and the Wishes of the Saint
  2. pp. 285-314
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  1. Epilogue: Text in Jewish Society and the Challenge of Comparison
  2. pp. 315-330
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  1. Glossary
  2. pp. 331-342
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 343-344
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 345-352
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