Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history : from the Middle Ages to modernity / edited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese.
This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish...
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| Other Authors: | Idelson-Shein, Iris (Editor) Wiese, Christian (Editor) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. |
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| Online Access: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030922682&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Table of Contents |
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| Introduction. Writing a History of Horror, or What Happens When Monsters Stare Back |
| Part One. The Monster Without: Monsters in Jewish-Christian Intercultural Discourse |
| Chapter 1. Enge unpathas uncuð gelad: The Long Walk to Freedom |
| Chapter 2. Monsters, Demons, and Jews in the Painting of Hieronymus Bosch |
| Notes |
| Chapter 3. Bestial Bodies on the Jewish Margins: Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness in Medieval Manuscripts Illuminated for Jews |
| Chapter 4. Demonic Entanglements: Matted Hair in Medieval and Early Modern, Western, and Eastern Ashkenaz |
| Chapter 5. A Jewish Frankenstein: Making Monsters in Modernist German Grotesques |
| Chapter 6. From Sexual Enlightenment to Racial Antisemitism: Gender, Sex, and Jewishness in Weimar Cinema's Monsters |
| Chapter 7. Monsters in the Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors |
| Part Two. The Monster Within: Monsters in Jewish Intracommunal Discourse |
| Chapter 8. Unearthing the "Children of Cain": Between Humans, Animals, and Demons in Medieval Jewish Culture |
| Chapter 9. Sexuality and Communal Space in Stories about the Marriage of Men and She-Demons |
| Chapter 10: The Raging Rabbi: Aggression and Agency in an Early Modern Yiddish Werewolf Tale (Mayse-bukh 1602) |
| Chapter 11. Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings |
| Chapter 12. Rabbinic Monsters: The World of Wonder and Rabbinic Culture at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century |
| Chapter 13. "Der Volf" or the Jew as Out(side of the)law |
