A Jew's Best Friend? : the image of the dog throughout Jewish history

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A Jew's Best Friend? : the image of the dog throughout Jewish history / ed. by Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman and Rakefet Zalashik

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip (Editor), Zalashik, Rakefet (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brighton [u.a.] : Sussex Academic Press, 2013
Contents/pieces:	13 records

1. Taking the circumcised dog by the throat : a critical review of contemporary rituals for dogs in America

2. Adam resurrected : a "dog's" journy from circus to asylum

3. Only yesterday : a Hebrew dog and colonial dynamics in pre-mandate Palestine

4. A dog without a people for a people without a dog : Rudolphina Menzel and canines in Canaan

5. "If a Jew has a dog." : dogs in Yiddish proverbs

6. Good dog, bad dog : Jews and their dogs in ancient Jewish society

7. An Israeli heroine? : "Azit the canine paratrooper"

8. From unclean species to man's best friend : dogs in the biblical, mishnaic, and Talmud periods

9. How to use this book to teach undergraduates

10. The bread, the children and the dogs

11. Dog cult in Persian period Judea

12. Uncultured, uncontrolled and untrustworthy : yet protective and productive ; the dogs in the mindset of the Jews of medieval Islam

13. Introduction