Books
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Authoring Lives. Bhubaneswar, India: Mayur Publications, 1992.
With Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman. The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity. Jerusalem: Melton Center, 2002.
With Irving Howe and Jenna Joselit. Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950. Eds. Susan L. Braunstein and Jenna Weissman Joselit. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
With Lucjan Dobroszycki. Code Name Oyneg Shabes: Emanuel Ringelblum's Underground Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943: An Exhibition Essay Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1983.
With Lucjan Dobroszycki. Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust. New York: Shocken, 1977. Reissued 1995.
With Cissy Grossman. Fabric of Jewish Life: Textiles from the Jewish Museum Collection. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1977.
Edited books
With Ivan Karp, Corinne Kratz, Gustavo Buntinx, Ciraaj Rassool, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/ Global Transformations, forthcoming.
With Jonathan Karp, Modern Jews and the Arts, forthcoming.
With David Goldberg, Marvin I. Herzog, and Dan Miron. The Field of Yiddish, Studies in Yiddish Language, Folklore, and Literature. Fifth Collection. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press/YIVO (New York), 1993.
With Marvin I. Herzog, Dan Miron, and Ruth Wisse. The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature. Fourth Collection. Philadelphia: ISHI. 1980.
Speech Play: Research and Resources for the Study of Linguistic Creativity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.
Editorial boards
Jews in Eastern Europe: The YIVO Encyclopedia. Ed. Gershon Hundert. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.
Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust. Ed. Jeffrey Shandler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Cultures of the Jews: A New History, 3 vols. Ed. David Biale. New York: Schocken, 2002.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, 3 vols. Eds. Solomon H. Katz and William Woys Weaver. New York: Scribner, 2003.
Chapters in books
"World Heritage and Cultural Economics." Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/ Global Transformations. Eds. Ivan Karp, Corinne Kratz, Gustavo Buntinx, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ciraaj Rassool, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, forthcoming.
"Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/1940." Modern Jews and the Arts. Eds. Jonathan Karp and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, forthcoming.
"Bagel" and "Passover." Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, 3 vols. Eds. Solomon H. Katz and William Woys Weaver. New York: Scribner, 2003.
"Udder and Other Extremities: Recipes from the Jews of Yemen." The Wilder Shores of Gastronomy: 20 Years of the Best Food Writing from the Journal Petits Propos Culinaires. Eds. Alan Davidson and Helen Saberi. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2002.
"Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11." Tactical Media Virtual Casebook: 9/11 and After. Eds. Barbara Abrash and Faye Ginsburg. New York: New York University, 2002. http://www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb
"Learning From Ethnography: Reflections on the Nature and Efficacy of Youth Tours to Israel." The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity. Jerusalem: Melton Center, 2002.
"The Museum as Catalyst." Museum 2000: Confirmation or Challenge? Ed. Per-Uno Ågren. Stockholm: Riksutställningar [Swedish Traveling Exhibitions], Svenska museiföreningen [Swedish Museum Association], 2002.
"Sounds of Sensibility." American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots. Ed. Mark Slobin. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.
"Introduction," with Michael Stanislawski and Marcus Moseley, Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust. Ed. Jeffrey Shandler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
"Art and Material Culture: A Conversation with Annette Weiner." The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture, with Fred R. Myers. Ed. Fred R. Myers. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2001.
"Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography." Divergent Centers: Shaping Jewish Cultures in Israel and America. Eds. Deborah Dash Moore and Ilan Troen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
"Reflections." The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Ed. Fred R. Myers. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2001.
"Reflections on Spoleto's 'Evoking History,' June 2001." Reflections on Evoking History: Listening across Culture and Communities. Co-curators Mary Jane Jacob and Tumelo Mosaka. Charleston: Spoleto Festival USA, 2001.
"Performing Knowledge." Folklore, Heritage Politics, and Ethnic Diversity: A Festschrift for Barbro Klein. Eds. Pertti J. Anttonen, Anna-Leena Siikala, Stein R. Mathisen, and Leif Magnusson. Botkyrka: Mĺngkulturellt centrum, 2000.
"Confusing Pleasures." Muntadas: On Translation--The Audience. Rotterdam: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 1999.
"Objects of Memory." People, Places and Pastimes: Challenging Perspectives of Ipswich. Brisbane: Global Arts Link, 1999.
"Performing the City: Reflections on the Urban Vernacular." Everyday Urbanism. Eds. John Chase, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999.
"From Immigrant to Ethnic in a Family's Tales" and "A Penchant for Parable". Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling. Ed. Steven Zeitlin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
"Messages in a Bottle." Kulturanthropologinnen Im Dialog: Ein Buch fuer und mit Ina-Maria Greverus. Eds. Anne Claire Groffman, Beatrice Ploch, Ute Ritschel, and Regina Roemhild. Koenigstein/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 1997.
"The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Fair and Its Cookbook, Denver 1888." Recipes for Reading: The Community Cookbook and Its Stories. Ed. Anne L. Bower. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
"A Place in the World: Jews and the Holy Land at World's Fairs." Encounters with the "Holy Land": Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture. Eds. Jeffrey Shandler and Beth S. Wenger. Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History, 1997.
"The Electronic Vernacular." Connected: Engagements with Media. Ed. George E. Marcus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
"Introduction." Life Is with People: The Culture of the Shtetl. By Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog. New York: Schocken, 1995.
"The Aesthetics of Everyday Life." Conversations before the End of Time. Ed. Suzi Gablik. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
"Ausblick: Die Krise der Folkloristik." Amerikanische: Eine Einfährung, by Regina Bendix. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1995.
"Confusing Pleasures." The Traffic in Art and Culture. Eds. George Marcus and Fred Myers. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.
"Easter Parade," "Manteo Sicilian Marionette Theater," and "Street Life." Encyclopedia of New York. Ed. Kenneth Jackson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
"From the Paperwork Empire to the Paperless Office: Testing the Limits of the 'Science of Tradition'." Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes. Eds. Regina Bendix and Rosemary Levi Zumwalt. Connecticut: Garland, 1995.
"Ordinary People, Everyday Life: Folk Culture in New York City." Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology. Eds. George Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1995.
"Times Square: A Pedestrian Perspective." Fields of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Goldstein. Ed. Roger D. Abrahams. Bloomington: Trickster Press, 1995.
"Tourism." Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook. Ed. Richard Bauman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
"Vom Kultus Zur Kultur: Jüdisches Auf Weltausstellungen." Jüdische Kultur in Museen und Auststellungen bis 1938. Ed. Bernhard Purin. Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen, 1. Vienna: Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1994-1995.
"Foreword." Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older. By Barbara G. Myerhoff. Ed. Mark Kaminski. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
"Mistaken dichotomies." Public folklore. Eds. Nicholas R. Spitzer, and Robert Baron. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1992.
"Performing Diversity." To Make the World Safe for Diversity: Towards an Understanding of Multi-Cultural Societies. Eds. Ake Daun, Billy Ehn, and Billy Klein. Tumba and Stocklholm: Swedish Immigration Institute and Museum and Ethnology Institute, Stockholm University, 1992.
"Kitchen Judaism." Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
""Other Times, Other Places." City Play. Eds. Amanda Dargan and Steven Zeitlin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
"Performance of Precepts/Precepts of Performance: Hasidic Celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn." By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual. Eds. Richard Schechner and Willa Appel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
"Objects of Memory: Material Culture as Life Review." Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader. Ed. Elliott Oring. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1989.
"Tourism." International Encyclopedia of Communications. Ed. Erik Barnouw. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
"American Jewish Life: Ethnographic Approaches to Collection, Presentation, and Interpretation in Museums." Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings. Eds. Charlie Seemann, and Patricia Hall. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987.
"The Folk Culture of Jewish Immigrant Communities: Research Paradigms and Directions." The Jews of North America. Ed. Moses Rischin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.
"Studying Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore." Handbook of American Folklore. Ed. Richard M. Dorson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
"The Cut That Binds: The Western Ashkenazic Torah Binder as Nexus between Circumcision and Torah." Celebration, Studies in Festivity and Ritual. Ed. Victor Witter Turner. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.
"Toward a Theory of Proverb Meaning." The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb. Eds.Wolfgang Mieder and Alan Dundes. New York: Garland Pub, 1981.
"Speech Play and Verbal Art." Play and Learning. Ed. Brian Sutton-Smith. New York: Gardner Press, 1979.
"Culture Shock and Narrative Creativity." Folklore in the Modern World. Ed. Richard M. Dorson. The Hague: Mouton, 1978.
"A Parable in Context." Folklore: Performance and Communication. Eds. Dan Ben-Amos, Kenneth S Goldstein. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.
"The Concept and Varieties of Narrative in East European Jewish Culture." Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Eds. Richard Bauman, and Joel Sherzer. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Articles
"Doreen G. Fernandez: A Tribute." Gastronomica (2003): .
"Messages in a Bottle." Gastronomica 2, no. 1 (2002): 16-22.
"Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11." TDR The Drama Review 47, no. 1 (T177) (2002).
"Current Debate: The Dematerialization of Culture and the De-Accessioning of Museum Collections," with Isabelle Vinson and Bruno S. Frey. Museum International, no. 216 (2002): 58-63.
"Performing Live: an Interview with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett," with Adrian Franklin. Tourist Studies 1, no. 3 (2001): 1-22.
"Our Beautiful Towers." Samtid & Museer (Sweden) , no. 3-4 (2001): 4-7.
"Destination Culture." Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya 18, no. November (2001): 149-76.
"La Cultura De Les Destinacions: Teoritzar El Patrimoni." Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya 19, no. November (2001): 44-61.
"Opera Gastronomica." Copia 3, no. 1 (2000): 12-14.
"Folklorists in Public: Reflections on Cultural Brokerage in the United States and Germany." Journal of Folklore Research 37, no. 1 (2000): 1-21.
"Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium." Performance Research 4, no. 1 (1999): 1-30.
"Sounds of Sensibility." Judaism 47, no. 185 (1998): 49-78.
"A Savage Performance [Couple in the Cage]--A Response to Diana Taylor." TDR The Drama Review 42, no. 2 (1998):.
"La Renaissance Du Klezmer: Réflexions sur un Chronotope Musical." Cahiers de Litterature Orale, no. 44 (1998): 229-62.
"Folklore's Crisis." Journal of American Folklore 111, no. 441 (1998): 281-327.
"Alicia Rios, Tailor of the Body's Interior: an Interview." TDR The Drama Review 41, no. 2 (T154) (1997): 90-110.
"Afterlives." Performance Research 2, no. 2 (1997): 1-9.
"Topic Drift: Negotiating the Gap Between Our Field and Our Name." Journal of Folklore Research 33 (1996): 245-54.
"Obituary: Lucjan Dobroszycki." YIVO Annual 23 (1996).
"Theorizing Heritage." Ethnomusicology 39, no. 3 (1995): 367-80.
"The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Cookbook and Its Fair, Denver 1888." Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Notes 13, no. 1-2 (1995): 1-7.
"Making Difference: Mapping the Discursive Terrain of Multiculturalism." Writings on Dance (Sydney) 13 (1995): 56-61.
"Spaces of Dispersal." Cultural Anthropology 9, no. 3 (1994): 339-44.
"Secrecy: African Art That Reveals and Conceals." Journal of American Folklore 107, no. 424 (1994): 306-10.
"On Difference." Journal of American Folklore 107, no. 424 (1994): 233-38.
"Heritage: A New Mode of Cultural Production." Tourism & Travel Review 3, no. 3 (December) (1994): 8-9.
"Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa." Cultural Anthropology 9, no. 2 (1994): 435-70. With Edward M. Bruner.
"Common Coin." Midwest (New Zealand), no. 3 (1993): 9-11.
"Who's Bad? Accounting for Taste." Artforum 30, no. 3 (November) (1991): 119-25.
"Dragon Cucumber: on Japanese Pickles." The Digest: Newsletter for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food (1991).
"Art and National Identity: a Critics' Symposium." Art in America 79, no. 9 (1991): 81, 142-43.
"Edible Art [on Marinetti's The Futurist Cookbook]." Artforum, November (1989): 20-23.
"L'Étude du Folklore en Milieu Urbain." Cahiers de Litterature Orale, no. 24 (1988): 13-35.
"Waves: People and Culture on the Lower East Side: An Essay on the Occasion of the Third Wave Exhibition at the New Y Ork Botanical Garden, 1987." Hands On: A Journal for Teachers , no. 31 (1988): 65-70.
"Mistaken Dichotomies." Journal of American Folklore 101, no. 400 (1988): 140-55.
"The Jews of Asia, Hall of Asian Peoples, American Museum of Natural History [Exhibition Review]." Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter 10, no. 2 (1988): 25-27.
"Hebrew Cookery: An Early Jewish Cookbook from the Antipodes." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires, no. 28 (1988): 11-21.
"Udder and Other Extremities: Recipes from the Jews of Yemen." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires, no. 27 (1987): 49-50.
"The Kosher Gourmet in the Nineteenth-Century Kitchen: Three Jewish Cookbooks in Historical Perspective." Journal of Gastronomy 2, no. 4 (1986-1987): 51-89.
"Jüdische Folklore in New York." Die Märchenzeitung , no. 6 (1986): 9.
"Di Folkloristik: A Good Yiddish Word." Journal of American Folklore 98 (1985): 331-34.
"American Jewish Life: Ethnographic Approaches to Collection, Presentation, and Interpretation in Museums." Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter 7, no. 1-4 (1985): 4-13.
"The Future of Folklore Studies in America: The Urban Frontier." Folklore Forum 16, no. 2 (1983): 175-234.
"Jewish Cookbooks." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires 24: 59.
"Beans, Water and Flatulence." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires 25: 79.
Conference Proceedings
"In and Out of the Academy: The Future of Art." The Art Academy of the 21st Century. Eds. Jan Brand, Ritsaert ten Cate, Akki Colenbrander, and Catelijne de Muijnck. Groningen (Netherlands): Profiel, Bedum for Academie Minerva Press, 1999.
"Performing the City: Reflections on the Urban Vernacular." Proceedings of Symposium, Above, Below and Beside: Urban Design, Urban Theory, and Urban Culture. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 1996.
"Tourism and Heritage." Traditions and Tourism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Ed. Susan Faine. Melbourne, Australia: Victorian Folklife Association, 1996.
"Museums, 'Heritage,' and Tourism in Terms of a Political Economy of Display." Communicating Cultures: Museums Australia 1995 National Conference Proceedings. Brisbane: 1995.
"Destination Museum: Heritage, Museums & Tourism." Destination Museum: Issues of Heritage, Museums & Tourism--Seminar Transcript. Wellington, New Zealand: Museum Directors Federation of Aotearoa/New Zealand Inc., 1994.
"From Cult to Culture: Jews on Display at World's Fairs, 1876-1940." Tradition and Modernization, Plenary Papers Read at the 4th International Congress of the Société Internationale D'Ethnologie et de Folklore. Ed. Reimund Kvideland. Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore, 1992.
"Problems in the Early History of Jewish Folkloristics." Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Managing Ed. David Assaf. Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1990.
"Authoring Lives." Life History as Cultural Construction/Performance. Eds. Tamás Hofer and Péter Niedermuller. Budapest: Ethnographic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1988.
Other Publications
"East of War," Program Notes for the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Fall 1998."
"The Making of a Folklorist." Metafolkloristica: An Informal Anthology of Folklorists' Humor. Eds. Franz Kinder and Boaz the Clown [pseudonyms]. Salt Lake City: Unauthorized Centennial Project for the American Folklore Society's One Hundredth Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1989.
