Eros and the Jews : from biblical Israel to contemporary America
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Eros and the Jews : from biblical Israel to contemporary America
University of California Press, c1997
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Originally published: New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1992
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale does much more than answers that question as he traces Judaism's evolving position on sexuality, from the Bible and Talmud to Zionism up through American attitudes today. What he finds is a persistent conflict between asceticism and gratification, between procreation and pleasure. From the period of the Talmud onward, Biale says, Jewish culture continually struggled with sexual abstinence, attempting to incorporate the virtues of celibacy, as it absorbed them from Greco-Roman and Christian cultures, within a theology of procreation. He explores both the canonical writings of male authorities and the alternative voices of women, drawing from a fascinating range of sources that includes the "Book of Ruth", "Yiddish literature", the memoirs of the founders of Zionism, and the films of Woody Allen. Biale's historical reconstruction of Jewish sexuality sees the present through the past and the past through the present.
He discovers an erotic tradition that is not dogmatic, but a record of real people struggling with questions that have challenged every human culture, and that have relevance for the dilemmas of both Jews and non-Jews today.
目次
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: Dilemmas of Desire
Chapter 1 Sexual Subversions in the Bible
Chapter 2 Law and Desire in the Talmud
Chapter 3 Rabbinic Authority and Popular Culture in Medieval Europe
Chapter 4 Sensuality, Asceticism, and Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 5 Sexuality and Spirituality in the Kabbalah
Chapter 6 The Displacement of Desire in Eighteenth- Century Hasidism
Chapter 7 Eros and Enlightenment
Chapter 8 Zionism as an Erotic Revolution
Chapter 9 Sexual Stereotypes in American Jewish Culture
EPILOGUE: Creating Desire
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED SECONDARY WORKS
INDEX
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