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Victory Dances: The Life of Fred Berk, by Judith Brin Ingber. Tel Aviv: Israel Dance Library, 1985. Distributed by Emmett Publishing, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 116 pp. $18.95 paperbound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Sally Charnow
Affiliation:
New York University

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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1990

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References

Notes

1. For a portrait of another Expressionist dancer who focused on Jewish themes, see Agadati: The Pioneer of Modern Dance in Israel, edited by Manor, Giora (Israel: Dance Library of Israel, 1985)Google Scholar.

2. Schorske, Carl, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (New York: Vintage Books, 1981)Google Scholar.

3. Ibid., p. 203.

4. For an in-depth analysis of the European orientalism see Edward, Said's Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979)Google Scholar.

5. For further discussion of the constructed nature of tradition in current critical studies, see Handler's, RichardNationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988)Google Scholar.

6. For a full treatment of the problem of authenticity in the case of Yemenite dance, see Shalom Staub's article, “Yemenite Jewish Dance and Culture: Popular Myth and Indigenous Activities in the Israeli Context,” in Living Tradition, edited by Yael Zerubavel. Forthcoming.