Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European CulturesInventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of “high” cultures (including literature, essays, journalism, and sociopolitical writings), showing how motifs specific to “folkloric antisemitism” migrated to “intellectual antisemitism.” This comparative perspective also highlights how the images of Jews have differed from that of other “strangers” such as Hungarians, Germans, Roma, Turks, Armenians, and Greeks. The gap between the conception of the “imaginary Jew” and the “real Jew” is a cultural distance that differs over time and place, here seen through the lens of cultural anthropology. Stereotypes of the “generic Jew” were not exclusively negative, and are described in five chapters depicting physical, occupational, moral and intellectual, mythical and magical, and religious portraits of “the Jew.” |
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Contents
THE PHYSICAL PORTRAIT | 38 |
THE OCCUPATIONAL PORTRAIT | 138 |
THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL PORTRAIT | 228 |
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| Title | Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures Studies in Antisemitism, ISSN 1023-6163 |
| Author | Andrei Oi?teanu |
| Translated by | Mirela Adascalitei |
| Contributors | Moshe Idel, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim) |
| Publisher | Nebraska, 2009 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jul 20, 2017 |
| ISBN | 0803220987, 9780803220980 |
| Length | 468 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Eastern Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Jewish Studies |
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