The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture

Release on 2003-09-02 | by Abraham Melamed

While until recently most scholarly attention has been devoted to the attitudes towards the Jews as 'other', this is the first comprehensive discussion of the attitudes of the Jews to their own 'others'.

Author: Abraham Melamed
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135789824
Category: Social Science
Page: 304
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The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture

The evolving image of the Black in the history of Jewish culture is being traced here in the conceptual framework of recent post-modern theories of the 'other'. The study focuses on the mechanisms by which an ethno-religious minority group considered by the dominant majority to be the inferior 'other' identifies its own inferior other. While until recently most scholarly attention has been devoted to the attitudes towards the Jews as 'other', this is the first comprehensive discussion of the attitudes of the Jews to their own 'others'.

Language: en
Pages: 182

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Authors: James Peter Helfers

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Brepols Pub

Contemporary criticism focuses on contested issues at the borders and in the interstices of cultures. Medieval and Early Modern European culture, previously conceived as monolithic, is now being reconceived as heterogeneous, a site of tensions, contest, accommodation, and subversion. The essays in this volume describe a Europe that is multicultural

Language: en
Pages:

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Authors: James Peter Helfers

Categories: Jewish way of life

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher:

Books about Jewish Culture and History

Language: en
Pages: 332

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Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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