The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance

Dedication Preface Liz Lerman Acknowledgments Introduction Naomi M. Jackson Part I: Honoring and Transforming Traditions Chapter 1. Into the Light Philip Szporer Chapter 2. (Not Just) Az der rebbe tantst: Toward an Inclusive History of Hasidic Dance Jill Gellerman Chapter 3. Felix Fibich and Torqueing as a Central Motif in Modern Male Subjectivity Naomi M. Jackson, Joel Gereboff, and Steven Weintraub Chapter 4. Send Off Jesse Zaritt Chapter 5. From Victimized to Victorious: Re-Forming Post-Holocaust Jewish Embodied Identity through Dance Gdalit Neuman Chapter 6. Mapping a Mizrahi Presence in Israeli Concert Dance: Representations and Receptions of Yemenite Jewish Life on Stage from 1920 to the Present Nina S. Spiegel Chapter 7. From the Other Side: An Interview with Ethiopian-Israeli Dance Artist Dege Feder Chapter 8. Believing Body, Dancing Body: Dance and Faith in the Religious Sector in Israel Talia Perlshtein, Reuven Tabull, and Rachel Sagee Chapter 9. My Body is Torah Efrat Nehama Chapter 10. Trance-Forming the Nation: Trance-Dance Parties for Orthodox Singles in Israel Joshua Schmidt Chapter 11. HaMapah/The Map: Navigating Intersections Adam W. McKinney Part II: Making the Invisible Visible Chapter 12. I, You, We: Dancing Interconnections and Jewish Betweens Hannah Schwadron and Victoria Marks Chapter 13. Then in What Sense Are You a Jewish Artist? Conflicts of the ?Emancipated? Self Marion Kant Chapter 14. The Godseeker: Akim Volynsky and Ballet as a Jewish Quest Liora Bing-Heidecker Chapter 15. The Nearness of Judaism Judith Chazin-Bennahum Chapter 16. Raising Cain: Dancing the Ethics and Poetics of Diaspora Flamenco K. Meira Goldberg Chapter 17. Forbidden Movements and Degenerate Bodies: Personal Reflections on Black Social Dance and Jewish Resistance Christi Jay Wells Chapter 18. Reclaiming my Jewish Yemenite Heritage Ze'eva Cohen Chapter 19. It Was There All Along: Theorizing a Jewish Narrative of Dance and (Post-) Modernism Douglas Rosenberg Chapter 20. Anna Halprin's Radical Body: Ethics, Empowerment, and the Environment Ninotchka Bennahum in Conversation with Anna Halprin Chapter 21. Jewish Roots and Principles of Dance Therapy Miriam Roskin Berger, Marsha Perlmutter Kalina, Johanna Climenko, and Joanna Gewertz Harris Part III: Confronting Legacies Chapter 22. The Micro-Gestures of Survival: Searching for the Lost Traces Laure Guilbert Chapter 23. Three Reflections on the Holocaust Rebecca Pappas, Alexx Shilling, Yehuda Hyman, and Suzanne Miller Chapter 24. Excavating Holocaust History: Site, Memory, and Community in Tamar Rogoff's Ivye Project Rebecca Rossen Chapter 25. Choreographing Livability after Oslo: Israeli Women Choreographers and Collective Responsibility Melissa Melpignano Chapter 26. The Cultural Politics of Practicing Israeli-ness in Gaga Meghan Quinlan Chapter 27. Arkadi Zaides - An Israeli Choreographer? Dana Shalev Chapter 28. Embodied Identification and Social Exchange: Israelis and American Jews Dancing in New York City Dina Roginsky Chapter 29. Unfixing Folk Dance: Community, Continuity, and Reinvention Rebecca Pappas, Eileen Levinson, and Avia Moore Chapter 30. Joy Vey: Choreographing a radical Diasporic Israeliness Hadar Ahuvia Conclusion. Writing Jewishness in Dance: Strategies for Empowering a Broad Diaspora Hannah Kosstrin Glossary Index