Sons of Saviors : : The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture / / Rebekka Voß.
Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary people who populated a shared Jewish-Christian imagination. But in fact the red variant of the Ten...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 32 color illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Translations and Transliteration
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. Visual Thinking in Yiddish
- Chapter 1. Red Jews: A Medieval Christian Label
- Chapter 2. Reclaiming Red: The Red Jews in Early Modern Yiddish
- Chapter 3. The Little Red Jew: A Vernacular Icon of Ashkenazic Identity
- Chapter 4. From West to East and Beyond Yiddish: The Transmission History of Ma’aseh Akdamut
- Chapter 5. Into Modernity: The Wandering Jew in Bright Red
- Epilogue. An Old Yiddish Legend in a Brooklyn Fridge
- Appendix. Ma’aseh Akdamut
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments