RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE Edition: Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is the 2022 publication of the Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences project. It contains proceedings of the eponymous international conference held in Moscow on December 1–3, 2021: twelve articles by Russian and Israeli scholars who study the social and cultural role of professionals and marginals in various ethno-confessional dimensions. Traditionally, "social strangers," to which representatives of various professions belong, were assigned a special role in calendar, magical, and occasional rites. Thus, professionals and social marginals were not considered outcasts: society assigned them a particular place and role, entrusting them with special cultural functions. Like previous publications in this series, Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is notable for a large amount of field and archival material that it makes publicly available for the first time.
Выпуск «Профессионалы и маргиналы в славянской и еврейской культурной традиции» ежегодника «Культура славян и культура евреев: диалог, сходства, различия» включает материалы одноименной международной конференции, состоявшейся в Москве 1–3 декабря 2021 г. В книгу вошли 12 статей ученых из России и Израиля, посвятивших свои исследования социальной и культурной роли профессионалов и маргиналов в разных этноконфессиональных традициях. Проблема...