Iris Idelson-Shein

Difference of a Different Kind

Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

The eighteenth century has long been considered a formative period in the history of European racial identity. Difference of a Different Kind offers a new exploration of the ways Jewish authors confronted notions of race that began to pervade European ideology and adapted them to construct their own identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780812246094
• ISBN-10: 0812246098
• Artikelnr.: 39751872

Autorenporträt

Iris Idelson-Shein is Associate Professor of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translations and Transliterations
Introduction
1 An East Indian Encounter: Rape and Infanticide in the Memoirs of Glikl
Bas Leib
2 "And Let him Speak": Noble and Ignoble Savages in Yehudah Horowitz's
Amudey beyt Yehudah
3 Whitewashing Jewish Darkness: Baruch Lindau and the "Species" of Man
4 Fantasies of Acculturation: Campe's Savages in the Service of the
Haskalah
Epilogue. A Terrible Tale: Some Final Thoughts on Jews and Race
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments