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Rakefet Zalashik and Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, “Introduction”
Meir Edrey, “Dog Cult in Persian Period Judea”
Sophia Menache, “From Unclean Species to Man’s
Best Friend–Dogs in the Biblical, Mishnah, and Talmud
Periods”
Joshua Schwartz, “Good Dog-Bad Dog: Jews and
Their Dogs in Ancient Jewish Society”
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, “Uncultured, Uncontrolled,
and Untrustworthy—Yet Protective and Productive! The Dog in
the Mindset of the Jews of Medieval Islam”
Kenneth Stow: “The Bread, the Children, and
the Dogs”
Robert A. Rothstein, “‘If a Jew Has a Dog…’:
Dogs in Yiddish Proverbs”
Susan M. Kahn, “Rudolphina Menzel: The First
Zionist Dog Trainer”
Uri Cohen, “Only Yesterday: A Hebrew
Dog and the Colonial Dynamics in Pre-Mandate Palestine”
Rakefet Zalashik, “An Israeli Heroine: ‘Azit
the Canine Paratrooper”
Iftah Biran, “Adam Resurrected: A Dog’s Journey
from the Circus to the Asylum through the Concentration Camp”
Aubrey Glazer, “Taking the circumcised dog by
the throat: A Critical Review of Contemporary Rituals for
Dogs in America”
Katharine Baker and Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman,
“Teaching the Jews and the Dog: A Pedagogical Essay”
Index
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“A Jew's Best Friend?
brilliantly documents the way Jews have imagined dogs and in
so doing imagined what it means to be a human, a Jew, and an
Israeli. A substantial contribution to both Jewish studies and
animal studies, the text will be valuable both to research scholars
and as an engaging resource for teaching undergraduates about
the diverse experience of Jews throughout history.” Aaron Gross,
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, The University
of San Diego
“This unique, fascinating, and
entertaining book is a must read. Evolutionary biologists,
archaeologists, and paleontologists have long argued that
our four-legged friends played a key role in human survival.
Dogs developed a unique genius for sensing human intentions
as the interplay between handler and hound shaped canine behavior
and our own. Now Ackerman-Lieberman and Zalashik offer research
that provides the historical detail, scholarly stamina, textual
analysis, and captivating stories that detail the sometimes
ambivalent, but always important role of canines in Jewish
history and cultural heritage. From the Exodus through the
First and Second Temple periods on to the Diaspora and back
to modern Israel, this volume guides the reader by blending
cultural, natural, literary and intellectual history that
entertains as it educates us about a largely unexplored, unexpected
and underappreciated chapter of inter-species co-evolution
and the remarkable epic of Jewish history.” Glenn Yago, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Milken Institute, Los
Angeles
“On the one hand, traditionally Jews have
expressed hostility toward the dog population; this is expressed
in a range of classical Jewish sources. However, at the same
time there have been ties of mutual affection and nurturing
between Jews and dogs. The range of essays in this volume
includes such topics as dogs in the biblical, mishnaic and
talmudic periods, the dog in the mindset of the Jews of medieval
Islam, and dogs in Yiddish proverbs. Original and learned,
this collection of studies provides a fascinating insight
into a hitherto unexplored dimension of Jewish life.” Dan
Cohn-Sherbok, Emeritus Professor of Judaism, The University
of Wales
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