Difference of a Different Kind : Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century /
Idelson-Shein, Iris
Difference of a Different Kind : Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century / Iris Idelson-Shein. - 1 online resource (280 p.) : 12 illus. - Jewish Culture and Contexts .
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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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812246094 9780812209709
10.9783/9780812209709 doi
Difference (Philosophy)--History--17th century.
Difference (Philosophy)--History--18th century.
Difference (Psychology)--History--17th century.
Difference (Psychology)--History--18th century.
Jews, European--Race identity--History--17th century.
Jews, European--Race identity--History--18th century.
Race awareness--History--Europe--17th century.
Race awareness--History--Europe--18th century.
Religious Studies.
RELIGION / Judaism / History.
European History. History. Jewish Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. World History.
GN547 / .I44 2014
155.8/209409032
Difference of a Different Kind : Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century / Iris Idelson-Shein. - 1 online resource (280 p.) : 12 illus. - Jewish Culture and Contexts .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812246094 9780812209709
10.9783/9780812209709 doi
Difference (Philosophy)--History--17th century.
Difference (Philosophy)--History--18th century.
Difference (Psychology)--History--17th century.
Difference (Psychology)--History--18th century.
Jews, European--Race identity--History--17th century.
Jews, European--Race identity--History--18th century.
Race awareness--History--Europe--17th century.
Race awareness--History--Europe--18th century.
Religious Studies.
RELIGION / Judaism / History.
European History. History. Jewish Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. World History.
GN547 / .I44 2014
155.8/209409032