Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender, and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World

Index

189 Abramovitch, Henry, 138, 141, 142, 145, 166 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 117 Agudat israel Party, 36, 43 Aid organizations, xvii, 5, 134-157, 168, 169, 170, 171. See also Hatzolah ; Magen David Adom; ZAkA Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ brigade, 169 Almog, ozz, 42 Almond, Gabriel, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 54, 57, 96, 105, 158 Ammerman, Nancy, 6, 7, 18, 96, 161 Antoun, richard, 3, 6, 8, 45, 161 Appleby, Scott, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 54, 57, 96, 105 Arab-israeli conflict, 37 Aran, Gideon, 7, 49, 59, 60, 115, 161 Asad, talal, 8 Asceticism, xiv, 2, 5, 29, 30, 33, 37, 50, 56, 74, 80, 86, 90, 102, 103, 104, 106, 112, 115, 118, 123, 136, 156 Ashkenazi Haredim, 36, 40, 53 Avemarie, Friedrich, 156 Avidan, M. A., 169 Ba Gad-elimelech, vered, 27 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 16 Bar mitzvah, 46 Bartkowski, John, 13, 14, 25, 117, 118, 119, 123 Bashevis Singer, issac, 21 Baskin, Judith, 166 Beeman, william, 6 Beirut, 12 Beit Ya’akov, 46, 120 Belcove-Shalin, Janet, 15 Ben Yohai, Shimon, 81 Ben-Ari, eyal, 60, 66, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 105, 111, 115, 138, 155, 167 Ben-David, eliezer, 168 Bendroth, Margaret, 10 Ben-Gurion, David, 99 Ben-Sasson, Haim Hillel, 166, 171 Berman, eli, 35, 37, 44, 78 Biale, David, 53, 120 Bible, 8 Bible-believing women, 11 Bible schools, 9 Bible scrolls, 143, 144 Bilu, Yoram, 46, 57, 61 Bleich, David, 98 Bloch, Maurice, 149 Bnei Brak, 19, 26, 35, 40, 41 Bnei Torah, xiii, 4, 29, 102, 111, 115, 162, 167 Body, 60, 112, 118, 119, 121, 122, 133, 143, 147, 163, 166, 168, 170; as battleground , 60, 112; and the brain, 60, 70; and carnal aspects, 60, 107; and diet restrictions, 69, 113; and emotional crisis, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 118, 131, 133, 143; and the eyes, 61, 62, 63, 66, 67, 122, 166; index 190 Index Body (continued), and impulses, 64, 112, 113, 118; and the mastering of the body, 72, 112, 113, 121; and medical terminology, 66, 71, 118; and mental illness, 66, 67; and physical illness, 67; and physical training, 70; and pollution, 119, 121, 123; and struggle, 64, 65, 71, 112, 118 Bourdieu, Pierre, 30, 53 Boyarin, Daniel, 13, 19, 53, 57, 60, 71, 120, 130, 132 Brasher, Brenda, 10, 11, 117 Breuer, Mordechai, 22, 38 Brit milah, 46 Brown, Peter, 66, 86 Bruce, Steve, 6 Buddhists, 5 Burial rites, 136, 138, 140, 141, 154, 166, 170, 171. See also ZAkA Bynum, Caroline walker, 61, 69 Canonical sources, 12, 55 Caplan, kimmy, 7, 28, 36, 41, 43, 44, 45, 50, 59, 111, 120, 133, 166 Celibacy, 106 Chede, 39, 46, 61 Christian masculine piety, 14, 104 Christians: born again, xiv; evangelical , 5, 11, 44, 104, 119, 120, 123 Churches, 9 Civil society, xvii, 2, 4, 10, 30, 50, 123, 134, 141, 156, 159 Cohen, Shlomo, 167 Cohen, Stuart, 99 Cohen, Yekhezkel, 101 Cohen-kastro, eilat, 119 Comaroff, Jean, 30 Combat soldiers 5, 29, 96, 97, 109. See also Military Crapanzano, vincent, 21 Cromer, Gerald, 7 Dahan, Momi, 35, 37, 44, 78 Davidman, Lynn, 6, 11, 15, 18, 54 Dayan (religious judge), 17, 78 de-Lange, Nicholas, 25 Death, Jewish view on, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 169 Death work, xviii, 5, 136, 140, 141, 171. See also ZAkA Deeb, Lara, 6, 10, 12 Degel Hatorah party, 36 Demerath, N. Jay, 3 Deuteronomy, 8 Domestication of Haredi men, 33, 118, 119, 125, 126, 128, 132, 133, 134, 159 Don-Yehiya, eliezer, 44 Doron, Gideon, 66 Douglas, Mary, 54, 57, 60, 149, 166 Douglass, william, 156 Drori, Ze’ev, 100, 167 eastern european Jewish Communities , 8, 38, 39, 40, 42, 77, 123 ehrenreich, Barbara, 118 eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 57 einhoren, Moshe, 168 eisenblat, S. Hacohen, 127, 129 eisenstadt, Shmuel Noah, 6, 7, 96 el-or, tamar, 11, 12, 15, 49, 119, 120 emerson, Michael, 3 enclave culture, xiv, xvii, 4, 9, 13, 22, 54, 80, 92, 98, 104, 126 ethnography: and gaining access to the field, 15, 25, 79, 80; and the honorary male position, 16; and in depth interviews with yeshiva students, xv, xvi, xvii, 16, 19, 20, 21, 14, 49, 53, 56, 57, 72, 87, 105, 106; and key informants, 16, 17, 20, 165; and obstacles in the field, xv, 4, 15, 16, 79, 80; and popular texts, xv, 14, 19, 23, 25, 26, 28, 32, 56, 57, Index 191 59...