Judith's book "Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance" now available through Wayne State Univ Press and also Amazon. Includes authors from Europe, Israel and America with 182 photos lavishly illustrating the 504 pages, $34.95. See also Judith's Facebook Group for upcoming events.

View a few of the illustrations for "Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance".

For further info contact Judith Brin Ingber.

News about the book:

July 20, 2011
The American Jewish World

A Dance to Jewish Life
After many years of planning and research, Judith Brin Ingber has completed a masterful book on Israeli and Jewish dance. Read full article by Mordecai Specktor»

Comments about the book:

"Judith Brin Ingber has assembled in one volume a wealth of information and ideas. She and the sixteen other contributors to Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance probe such diverse, yet profoundly related subjects as dancing in Judaic ceremonies and the creation of folk dances in the newborn nation of Israel. Dancing springs to life on the page—illuminating how cultural roots yield new blooms when transplanted into different soil. The reader will be stimulated by conflicting views about such topics as women's participation in traditional Jewish dances throughout history and the ways in which contemporary folk and theatrical dancing in Israel have honored memory and culture, even as they have altered the image of the Jewish body and what it means to be a Jew."

~Deborah Jowitt, dance critic and historian, author of Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance

"Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance is a work of great originality and importance, not only to the world of dance, but to the study of global Jewish culture and the arts. Its scope and depth are remarkable, and its combination of photography and scholarship is nothing short of thrilling."

~Riv-Ellen Prell, Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and editor of Women Remaking American Judaism

"Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance is at once both cinematic and diasporic. It is part academic travelogue, part historical manifesto and part home movie, if 'home' was all of Jewish culture across all of history. It intermingles the religious and secular practices of dance into a hybrid and fluid Jewishness: one with porous boundaries and a shifting sense of self, identity and purpose. In this collection of original and sometimes daring research, dance is framed as celebratory and artistic, decorative and efficacious, a kind of both/and construction which the authors liberally mine for its essential Jewishness and its contribution to the central issues surrounding Jewish identity, as both a part of and apart from the State of Israel. Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance will undoubtedly inspire debate, critique and hopefully the publication of other texts that further explore dance in the frame of an ever-shifting Jewish identity."

~Douglas Rosenberg, professor and director of the Conney Project on Jewish Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dancer/writer Judith Brin Ingber remembers the advice she received from Merce Cunningham. Read the November 5, 2011 article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Hear Judiths interview with the national Jewish newspaper the Forward and see photos from her new book.
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Judith's book travels in November 2011 through the Jewish Book Council, The Houston JCC, and Temple Beth Tikvah on Nov. 7 and 8; the University of Nevada and the Las Vegas JCC on November 11; and the Atlanta JCC on Nov. 13.

Judith gives a new paper about Jewish identity in dance at the Congress on Research in Dance's Philadelphia conferference Nov. 18, 2011.

Judith's presents a special program "I Danced Because I wanted to Say Something: American Jews and Dance" at the new National Museum of American Jewish History along with other artist/writers featured in her book, with book signing on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011 at 3:00 pm, 101 So. Independence Mall East, Philadelphia. For information about upcoming programs and to purchase tickets, please visit www.nmajh.org/publicprograms.

In December 2011, Judith will tour to Israel to give a keynote address about Sara Levi-Tanai, featured in her book, at the Sara Levi-Tanai conference sponsored by Tel Aviv University's Dept of Theatre Studies & Dance Library of Israel Dec. 25-26, 2011. Judith will also be lecturing in colleges and doing new research.

In January she launches her book along with author Judith Bennahum at the famed 92nd St Y (Lexington & 92nd), Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 3PM; reception and book signings follow program.

For papers presented by Judith at the Univ of Wisconsin's Conney Conferences see their website: 2009, 2011.

Watch Judith dance in her recent piece "Stepping into Heaven" here.

Judith wins Special Citation Sage Award!
StarTribune Article