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  • Between the Bridge and the Barricade

    Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe

    by Iris Idelson-Shein ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson-Shein charts major paths of textual migration from non-Jewish to Jewish literatures, analyzes translators’ motives, and ... Read more

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  • Difference of a Different Kind

    Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Iris Idelson-Shein ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein, occupied a particular place in the development of modern racial discourse during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Simultaneously inhabitants and outsiders in Europe, considered both foreign and familiar, Jews adopted a complex perspective on otherness and race. Often themselves the objects of anthropological scrutiny, they internalized, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Difference of a Different Kind

    Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Iris Idelson-Shein ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein, occupied a particular place in the development of modern racial discourse during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Simultaneously inhabitants and outsiders in Europe, considered both foreign and familiar, Jews adopted a complex perspective on otherness and race. Often themselves the objects of anthropological scrutiny, they internalized, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History

    From the Middle Ages to Modernity

    Edited by Dr. Iris Idelson-Shein, Professor Christian Wiese ...
    This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture.Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    A Biography

    by Martin E Marty ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Enlightenment

    by Shmuel Feiner ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They ... Read more

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  • The First Modern Jew

    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in ... Read more

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  • Demonizing the Other

    Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia

    Edited by Robert S. Wistrich ...
    At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate images of the 'other' as an enemy or 'demon' to be destroyed. This innovative book fills that gap through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural ... Read more

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  • Writing Jewish Culture

    Paradoxes in Ethnography

    Edited by Andreas Kilcher, Gabriella Safran ...
    "Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important." — Washington Book ReviewFocusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination.Challenging the ... Read more

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  • Martin Buber's Theopolitics

    by Samuel Hayim Brody ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    How did one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century grapple with the founding of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one of the most significant political conflicts of his time? Samuel Hayim Brody traces the development of Martin Buber's thinking and its implications for the Jewish religion, for the problems posed by Zionism, and for the Zionist-Arab conflict. Beginning in ... Read more

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  • On the Word of a Jew

    Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust

    by Nina Caputo, Mitchell B Hart ...
    Fourteen essays examining the dynamics of trust and mistrust in Jewish history from biblical times to today.What, if anything, does religion have to do with how reliable we perceive one another to be? When and how did religious difference matter in the past when it came to trusting the word of another? In today's world, we take for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to ... Read more

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  • A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish

    Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany

    by Aya Elyada ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing ways in which Yiddish was discussed and treated in Christian texts, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish addresses a wide array of issues, most notably ... Read more

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