Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Naomi M. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. She is author or co-editor of Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion, Right to Dance: Dancing for Rights, and Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y.

Rebecca Pappas is Assistant Professor of Dance at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and Guest Faculty in the Masters in Social Practice Art at University of Indianapolis. She choreographs dances that address the body as an archive for personal and social memory. Her work has toured nationally and internationally, and she has received residencies from Yaddo and Djerassi, and funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Mellon Foundation,
the Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Clorox Foundation, and Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME).

Toni Shapiro-Phim is Associate Professor of Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation and Assistant Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University. She is a cultural anthropologist and dance ethnologist whose research, writing, community work, and teaching focus on the history and cultural contexts of the arts in discrete regions of the world, particularly in relation to violence, genocide, migration and refugees, conflict transformation, and
gender concerns. Her first documentary film, Because of the War, premiered in 2018.

Reviews

It takes time to absorb the diverse and deep views in the Handbook. Time to sort through the chapters, return to some of them, make connections. Time to allow oneself to evolve, to gain or lose or reclaim different aspects of the intersection of Jewishness and dance. Spirituality and art. Culture and choreography. History and the contemporary world. What it means to be a Jew, to be a Jewish dancer, and how that changes at different times of one's life (as anti-Semitism continues to rise and fall). A final note: "Handbook" is a misnomer. This book is a treasury of gems of courage, creativity, storytelling, and research.
*Wendy Perron, www.wendyperron.com*

The value of the handbook is the extensive range of issues, identities, and artistic expressions it encompasses relating to Jewishness and dance-an important resource for those acquainted with the history and questions in this arena, and for those with no background.
*Naima Prevots, Journal Of Dance Education*