Difference of a Different Kind : : Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century /

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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Idelson-Shein, Iris,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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