Ruth Tsoffar
Biographic Data
| ID | 710664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Tsoffar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsoffar |
| SIGNATURE | TSOFFAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Land that Devours its People
The title of the article refers to the excessive ideological force deployed in Zionism to foster national and religious unity. As a closed and totalizing system, the Zionist enterprise precludes the representation of minority cultures and has yet to provide, if it ever can, an adequate definition of Palestinians, Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origins) and other minorities - Karaites, Bedouins and Samaritans - much less one of…
Forget Baghdad
Memory is an empty plate, scarred by scratches from the knife on its skin. —Ronny Someck, "Baghdad," in The Milk Underground1 In his film Forget Baghdad (2003), Samir aims to compensate for the historical "abyss of abandonment" (Hess 1993:7) that looms between the Zionist official story of Israel and its Iraqi chapter through the intimate and poignant reminiscences of five individuals of Baghdadi origin.2 He does this in part by closing in on the…
The Body as Storyteller
Issues of purity and impurity structure the Karaite woman's life within a unique hierarchy of power, in which a breast-feeding mother becomes vulnerable in the presence of a menstruating woman. In this article, I examine two descriptions of such encounters, with special attention to the significance of mother's milk within a discourse of bodily fluids (blood, milk, and urine). I also discuss the representation of the body as divided and reduced t…
The Body as Storyteller
Issues of purity and impurity structure the Karaite woman's life within a unique hierarchy of power, in which a breast-feeding mother becomes vulnerable in the presence of a menstruating woman. In this article, I examine two descriptions of such encounters, with special attention to the significance of mother's milk within a discourse of bodily fluids (blood, milk, and urine). I also discuss the representation of the body as divided and reduced t…
A Land that Devours its People
The title of the article refers to the excessive ideological force deployed in Zionism to foster national and religious unity. As a closed and totalizing system, the Zionist enterprise precludes the representation of minority cultures and has yet to provide, if it ever can, an adequate definition of Palestinians, Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origins) and other minorities - Karaites, Bedouins and Samaritans - much less one of…
The Body as Storyteller
Issues of purity and impurity structure the Karaite woman's life within a unique hierarchy of power, in which a breast-feeding mother becomes vulnerable in the presence of a menstruating woman. In this article, I examine two descriptions of such encounters, with special attention to the significance of mother's milk within a discourse of bodily fluids (blood, milk, and urine). I also discuss the representation of the body as divided and reduced t…
A Land that Devours its People
The title of the article refers to the excessive ideological force deployed in Zionism to foster national and religious unity. As a closed and totalizing system, the Zionist enterprise precludes the representation of minority cultures and has yet to provide, if it ever can, an adequate definition of Palestinians, Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origins) and other minorities - Karaites, Bedouins and Samaritans - much less one of…
Forget Baghdad
Memory is an empty plate, scarred by scratches from the knife on its skin. —Ronny Someck, "Baghdad," in The Milk Underground1 In his film Forget Baghdad (2003), Samir aims to compensate for the historical "abyss of abandonment" (Hess 1993:7) that looms between the Zionist official story of Israel and its Iraqi chapter through the intimate and poignant reminiscences of five individuals of Baghdadi origin.2 He does this in part by closing in on the…
Art (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Breast milk (1 work)