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

Aran, Gideon

ISBN 10: 0197689159 / ISBN 13: 9780197689158

Published by Oxford University Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Jewish Rites of Death at the Scene of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197689159
• ISBN 13: 9780197689158
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book presents for the first time a comprehensive and nuanced portrayal of ZAKA -- an organization of ultra-orthodox religious Jews who rush to the sites of Palestinian suicide attacks in Israel to care for the mutilated corpses of the victims according to an intricate, symbolically charged, macabre rite. 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.

About the Author

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.