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Riv-Ellen Prell

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Riv-Ellen Prell · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Anthropologist Riv-Ellen Prell initiated ethnographic study of ordinary American Jews that paid attention to religion, gender, ritual, and cultural performance.

When

15 October 1947

Biography

Riv-Ellen Prell is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Anthropologist Riv-Ellen Prell initiated ethnographic study of ordinary American Jews that paid attention to religion, gender, ritual, and cultural performance.

How & why

Anthropologist Riv-Ellen Prell initiated ethnographic study of ordinary American Jews that paid attention to religion, gender, ritual, and cultural performance. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Deborah Dash Moore, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Deborah Dash Moore

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Anthropologist Riv-Ellen Prell initiated ethnographic study of ordinary American Jews that paid attention to religion, gender, ritual, and cultural performance.

1947

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Deborah Dash Moore