Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community

Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers...
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Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community by Eichler-Levine, Jodi

Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community

Dhs. 278.75

Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community

Dhs. 278.75
Author: Jodi Eichler-Levine
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement. As she traveled across the country to homes, craft conventions, synagogue knitting circles, and craftivist actions, she joined in the making, asked questions, and contemplated her own family stories. Jewish Americans, many of them women, are creating ritual challah covers and prayer shawls, ink, clay, or wood pieces, and other articles for family, friends, or Jewish charities. But they are doing much more: armed with perhaps only a needle and thread, they are reckoning with Jewish identity in a fragile and dangerous world.

The work of these crafters embodies a vital Judaism that may lie outside traditional notions of Jewishness, but, Eichler-Levine argues, these crafters are as much engaged as any Jews in honoring and nurturing the fortitude, memory, and community of the Jewish people. Craftmaking is nothing less than an act of generative resilience that fosters survival. Whether taking place in such groups as the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework or the Jewish Hearts for Pittsburgh, or in a home studio, these everyday acts of creativity--yielding a needlepoint rabbi, say, or a handkerchief embroidered with the Hebrew words tikkun olam--are a crucial part what makes a religious life.



Author: Jodi Eichler-Levine
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/19/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781469660639


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020
Library Journal 10/09/2020 pg. 1

About the Author
Eichler-Levine, Jodi: - Jodi Eichler-Levine, Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization at Lehigh University, is author of Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature.

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