Between Life and Thought: Existential Anthropology and the Academic Study of Religion In the chapter entitled “Sartre’s Jews and Jackson’s Witches: What […]

Anthropology of the Jews Week Ten– Sophie SchocketThe article “Anthropology, Judaism and Jews” by Dr. Seeman and Nehemia A. Sternfurther explores the […]

 While the subjects of ethnographies are often understood to be the most crucial aspect of the research, equally as important is understanding […]

Throughout this semester, we have been exploring the concept of the “Jewish Question,” examining the essence of Jewish identity and what defines […]

Dr. Don Seeman’s ethnography, One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism, ponders race and religion within the broader political […]

From Falasha to Freedom describes Shmuel Yilmah’s experience emigrating from Ethiopia to Israel during Operation Moses as a child.  The first section […]

Number Our Days by Barbara Myerhoff was created as both a short film (produced in 1976) and as an ethnographic book (published […]

Barbara Myerhoff’s book, also portrayed through a short film Number Our Days, is a moving representation of her anthropological study on an […]

In this week’s section of Life Is With People, written by Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog, we learn more about life in […]

“The tragedy of these undemocratic prejudices lies in their absurd falsity. Just as there is a stage Jew, a stage Frenchman, a […]