Difference of a Different Kind : : Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century / / Iris Idelson-Shein.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 12 illus. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on translations and transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. An East Indian Encounter -- Chapter 2. "And Let Him Speak" -- Chapter 3. Whitewashing Jewish Darkness -- Chapter 4. Fantasies of Acculturation -- Epilogue. A Terrible Tale -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Summary: | 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, adapted, and revised the emerging discourse of racial difference to meet their own ends.Difference of a Different Kind explores Jewish perceptions and representations of otherness during the formative period in the history of racial thought. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including philosophical and scientific works, halakhic literature, and folktales, Idelson-Shein unfolds the myriad ways in which eighteenth-century Jews imagined the "exotic Other" and how the evolving discourse of racial difference played into the construction of their own identities. Difference of a Different Kind offers an invaluable view into the ways new religious, cultural, and racial identities were imagined and formed at the outset of modernity. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780812209709 9783110665932 |
DOI: | 10.9783/9780812209709 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Iris Idelson-Shein. |