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Folklorist Rosenberg discusses Jewish folklife; including the religion; temples; religious rites, practices, and art; Jewish stories, jokes, and life rituals; world, US, and Florida Jews; food; gender and Judaism; misconceptions of folklife; researching Jewish folklife; and Jewish Americans in the South. Recorded at the Jacksonville Museum of Science and History. Funded by the Florida Endowment of the humanities, the seminar series featured presentations by Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs staff and area specialists discussing the study of folk culture; folk traditions in Florida; women's occupational culture and lore; and the folk culture and lore of Hispanic, Jewish, and African-American women, including customs, beliefs, family and social relations, folk tales and jokes, and musical traditions and styles.