Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history: from the Middle Ages to modernity
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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters |
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| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Note on Transliterations xvii
Introduction: Writing a History of Horror, or What Happens When Monsters
Stare Back Iris Idelson-Shein 1
Part One The Monster Without: Monsters in Jewish-Christian
Intercultural Discourse
1 Enge unpathas uncud gelad: The Long Walk to Freedom Miriamne
Ara Krummel and Asa Simon Mittman 21
2 Monsters, Demons, and Jews in the Painting of Hieronymus Bosch
Debra Higgs Strickland 42
3 Bestial Bodies on the Jewish Margins: Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness in
Medieval Manuscripts Illuminated for Jews Marc Michael Epstein 69
4 Demonic Entanglements: Matted Hair in Medieval and Early Modern,
Western, and Eastern Ashkenaz François Guesnet 86
5 A Jewish Frankenstein: Making Monsters in Modernist German
Grotesques Joela Jacobs 102
6 From Sexual Enlightenment to Racial Antisemitism: Gender, Sex, and
Jewishness in Weimar Cinemas Monsters Cathy S. Gelbin 118
7 Monsters in the Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors Kobi Kabalek 134
Part Two The Monster Within: Monsters in Jewish Intracommunal
Discourse
8 Unearthing the “Children of Cain”: Between Humans, Animals, and
Demons in Medieval Jewish Culture David L Shyovitz 157
9 Sexuality and Communal Space in Stories about the Marriage of
Men and She-Demons David Rotman 187
VI
Contents
10 The Raging Rabbi: Aggression and Agency in an Early Modern Yiddish
Werewolf Tale (Mayse-bukh 1602) Astrid Lembke 201
11 Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings David B. Ruderman 213
12 Rabbinic Monsters: The World of Wonder and Rabbinic Culture
at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century Maoz Kahana 229
13 “Der Volf” or The Jew as Out(side of the)law Jay Gelier 251
Select Bibliography 265
Index 267 |
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| title_auth | Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity |
| title_exact_search | Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity |
| title_full | Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity edited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese |
| title_fullStr | Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity edited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity edited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese |
| title_short | Monsters and monstrosity in Jewish history |
| title_sort | monsters and monstrosity in jewish history from the middle ages to modernity |
| title_sub | from the Middle Ages to modernity |
| topic | Juden (DE-588)4028808-0 gnd Ungeheuer (DE-588)4078547-6 gnd |
| topic_facet | Juden Ungeheuer Europa Aufsatzsammlung |
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