Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism

by Gadi Sagiv

Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Bridging diverse domains such as religious law, mysticism, eschatology, as well as clothing and literature, this book contends that, by way of a protracted process, the color blue has constituted a means through which Jews have understood themselves. In ancient Jewish texts, the term for blue,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512823376
• ISBN13: 9781512823370
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"