The Jewish Body
A History
An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the presentThat the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte asks, should a historian bother with the Jewish body in particular? And is the Jewish body as much a concept constructed over the course of centuries by Jews and non-Jews alike as it is a physical reality? To comprehend the notion and existence of a Jewish body, he contends, one needs to look both at the images and traits that have been ascribed to Jews…
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Weitere Autoren: Bredeck, Elizabeth (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-9765-2
- EAN: 9780812297652
- Produktnummer: 34601725
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'872 KB
- Abbildungen: 27 illus
Über den Autor
Robert Jutte. Translated by Elizabeth Bredeck
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