Eros and the Jews : from biblical Israel to contemporary America
Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? This title answers this question as the author traces Judaism's evolving position on sexuality, from the Bible and Talmud to Zionism up through American attitudes.
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1997
History
xiii, 319 pages ; 21 cm
9780520211346, 0520211340
36681737
Sexual subversions in the Bible
Law and desire in the Talmud
Rabbinic authority and popular culture in medieval Europe
Sensuality, asceticism, and medieval Jewish philosophy
Sexuality and spirituality in the Kabbalah
The displacement of desire in eighteenth-century Hasidism
Eros and enlightenment
Zionism as an erotic revolution
Sexual stereotypes in American Jewish culture
Originally published: New York, NY : BasicBooks, ©1992