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A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony is a study of contemporary ultra-Orthodox religiosity in Israel. This book analyzes the ongoing reconstruction of Haredi culture in Israel, a process which has been spurred on by the challenges of modernity, the worldwide resurgence of religion, and the strong sway of Israeliness. Despite its founders' and the present leadership's long-standing eff orts to establish and buttress a community enclave, various modern trends and state institutions, such as secularization, consumerism, feminism, and the military, are having a profound impact on the yeshiva world. In other words, modernity is making inroads into the Jewish state's Haredi "ghetto" and transforming many aspects of everyday life. Over the course of her extended research on this community, Stadler has discerned changes in several key areas, including religious life; the family structure; and the community's interface with government authorities and the rest of the populace. Her book sheds light on all of these developments.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews --- Haredim --- Jews --- Social conditions. --- Civilization, Modern --- Social conditions --- Ultra-Orthodox Jews - Israel --- Ultra-Orthodox Jews - Social conditions --- Civilization, Modern - 21st century

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews --- Jews --- Interfaith dating --- Fiction --- Identity. --- Fiction.

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Minority populations are often regarded as being 'hard to reach' and evading state expectations of health protection. This ethnographic and archival study analyses how devout Jews in Britain negotiate healthcare services to preserve the reproduction of culture and continuity. This book demonstrates how the transformative and transgressive possibilities of technology reveal multiple pursuits of protection between this religious minority and the state. Making Bodies Kosher advances theoretical perspectives of immunity, and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and the study of religions.

Infants --- Maternal and infant welfare --- Orthodox Judaism --- Reproductive health --- Social sciences. --- Ultra-Orthodox Jews --- Ultra-orthodox Jews --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Care and hygiene

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To learn was to live, and to learn well was to live well. This was the lesson of both cultures of the Modern Orthodox Jewish world in which Ilana Blumberg was educated, with its commitment to traditional Jewish practice and ideas alongside an appreciation for modern, secular wisdom.

Orthodox Judaism. --- Jewish women --- Jewish sects --- Ex-Orthodox Jews --- Blumberg, Ilana M., --- Books and reading.

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Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970's. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, and feminist theory, this body of Israeli women's writing is considered in comparative perspective with American feminist fiction of the 1960's and 1970's as well as with contemporary American Jewish women's writing that engages Orthodoxy.

American fiction --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Jewish sects --- Ex-Orthodox Jews --- Women authors --- History and criticism.