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The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Jewish Rites of Death at the Scene of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism
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Gideon Aran (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University)

The Cult of Dismembered Limbs

Jewish Rites of Death at the Scene of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism

Gideon Aran (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
18 December 2023
Middle Eastern history; Judaism; Jewish studies; Social & cultural anthropology
When a suicide terrorist strikes in Israel, the usual contingent of first responders that one might see anywhere in the world -- police, medics, firefighters -- are accompanied by another group, one found only in Israel. They wear yarmulkes, white coveralls, rubber gloves, and dayglo yellow vests. These are the men of ZAKA, an Israeli religious organization dedicated to dealing with the mutilated and scorched bodies and the severed limbs of the victims of violent death, mainly those killed by Palestinian terrorism.ZAKA arose, reached its peak, and gained fame during the two waves of suicide terrorism that characterized the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the last decade of the 20th century and the first five years of the twenty-first century. ZAKA has a few hundred all-male activists, typically volunteers, exclusively Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jews. Well trained and equipped, they are among the first to arrive at the sites of unnatural death, especially the arenas of mass mortality, where they perform a scrupulous procedure, laden with symbolism. This involves collecting the corpses and body parts, sorting them, identifying them, and reassembling them while diligently preserving respect for the dead and for body parts, and preparing them for burial according to the rigid strictures of Jewish law. Gideon Aran has spent years embedded with the men of ZAKA, and in this gripping ethnography he takes readers inside the organization and on the ground with these men as they do their gruesome -- but, in their view, holy -- work.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   652g
ISBN:   9780197689141
ISBN 10:   0197689140
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely

Gideon Aran is a professor of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author, most recently, of The Smile of the Human Bomb: New Perspectives on Suicide Terrorism.

Reviews for The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Jewish Rites of Death at the Scene of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism

An illuminating work... The book's text testifies to the depth of his penetration of the intra-organizational discourse and the thinking guiding its members. The result is a brilliant study that exposes the reader to a new Jewish-Haredi subgroup and its beliefs, customs and rites. * Haaretz *


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