Difference of a Different Kind : Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century / Iris Idelson-Shein.
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TextSeries: Jewish Culture and ContextsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 12 illusContent type: - 9780812246094
- 9780812209709
- 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 -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
- Race awareness -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
- Religious Studies
- RELIGION / Judaism / History
- European History
- History
- Jewish Studies
- Religion
- Religious Studies
- World History
- 155.8/209409032 23
- GN547 .I44 2014
- online - DeGruyter
- Issued also in print.
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (dgr)9780812209709 |
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.
Issued also in print.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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