Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
ISBN-13:
9780812246094
ISBN-10:
0812246098
Author:
Iris Idelson-Shein
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format:
Hardcover
280 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780812246094
ISBN-10:
0812246098
Author:
Iris Idelson-Shein
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format:
Hardcover
280 pages
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Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century (Jewish Culture and Contexts) (ISBN-13: 9780812246094 and ISBN-10: 0812246098), written by authors
Iris Idelson-Shein, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014.
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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.
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