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The Shabbat elevator and other Sabbath subterfuges : an unorthodox essay on circumventing custom and Jewish character / Alan Dundes.

By: Publisher: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461645603 (electronic bk.)
  • 1461645603 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shabbat elevator and other Sabbath subterfugesDDC classification:
  • 296.4/12 22
LOC classification:
  • BM685 .D86 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 11.21
Online resources:
Contents:
The Concept of Custom -- The Sabbath in the Old Testament -- The Sabbath in the New Testament -- The Sabbath in Rabbinical Tradition -- The Shabbat Elevator -- The Light in the Refrigerator -- The Eruv as Symbolic Space -- Other Sabbath Customs -- The Shabbes Goy -- Circumvention and Jewish Mentality -- Obsession and Religion According to Freud -- Anal Erotic Character -- Self-Imposed Repression -- The Love of Argument.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-193) and index.

The Concept of Custom -- The Sabbath in the Old Testament -- The Sabbath in the New Testament -- The Sabbath in Rabbinical Tradition -- The Shabbat Elevator -- The Light in the Refrigerator -- The Eruv as Symbolic Space -- Other Sabbath Customs -- The Shabbes Goy -- Circumvention and Jewish Mentality -- Obsession and Religion According to Freud -- Anal Erotic Character -- Self-Imposed Repression -- The Love of Argument.

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