The Jewish Body
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The Jewish Body
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Author : Melvin Konner
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 2009-01-13
The Jewish Body written by Melvin Konner and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Religion categories.
A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs. Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book that examines the human body through the prism of Jewish culture. Konner looks as well at the views of Jewish physiology held by non-Jews, and the way those views seeped into Jewish thought. He describes in detail the origins of the first nose job, and he writes about the Nazi ideology that categorized Jews as a public health menace on par with rats or germs. A work of grand historical and philosophical sweep, The Jewish Body discusses the subtle relationship between the Jewish conception of the physical body and the Jewish conception of a bodiless God. It is a book about the relationship between a land–Israel–and the bodily sense not merely of individuals but of a people. As Konner describes, a renewed focus on the value of physical strength helped generate the creation of a Jewish homeland, and continued in the wake of it. With deep insight and great originality, Konner gives us nothing less than an anatomical history of the Jewish people. Part of the Jewish Encounter series
The Jewish Body
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Author : Robert Jutte
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-12-25
The Jewish Body written by Robert Jutte and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-25 with Religion categories.
An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That 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 by themselves and others, and to the specific bodily practices that have played an important role in creating the identity of a religious and cultural community. Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, often for anti-Jewish purposes. He examines the techniques for caring for the body that Jews acquire in childhood from parents and authority figures and how these have changed over the course of a more than 2000-year history, most of it spent in exile. From consideration of traditional body stereotypes, such as the so-called Jewish nose, to matters of gender and sexuality, sickness and health, and the inevitable end of the body in death, The Jewish Body explores the historical foundations of the human physis in all its aspects.
The Jew S Body
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Author : Sander Gilman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
The Jew S Body written by Sander Gilman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish mind and hysteria, and the Victorians' irrational connection between Jews and prostitutes. Gilman is especially concerned with the role of psychoanalysis in the construction of anti-Semitism, examining Freud's attitude towards his own Jewishness and its effect on his theories, as well as the supposed "objectiveness" of psychiatrists and social scientists.
The Jewish Body
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Author : Maria Diemling
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009
The Jewish Body written by Maria Diemling and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
This volume explores perceptions of the "Jewish body" in variety of early modern Jewish sources. It discusses, among other topics, ideas of the ideal body in normative sources, the influence of Kabbalistic ideas on Jewish-Christian discourse and the link between melancholy and exile.
Muscular Judaism
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Author : Todd Samuel Presner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-04-30
Muscular Judaism written by Todd Samuel Presner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-30 with Education categories.
Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.
People Of The Body
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Author : Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
People Of The Body written by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with History categories.
By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies — for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth— this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.
The Jew S Body
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Author : Sander L. Gilman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Jew S Body written by Sander L. Gilman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Antisemitism categories.
"Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish mind and hysteria, and the Victorians' irrational connection between Jews and prostitutes. Gilman is especially concerned with the role of psychoanalysis in the construction of anti-Semitism, examining Freud's attitude towards his own Jewishness and its effect on his theories, as well as the supposed "objectiveness" of psychiatrists and social scientists."--Pub. desc.
Exemplary Bodies
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Author : Henrietta Mondry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Exemplary Bodies written by Henrietta Mondry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish 'race, ' 1860s-1930 -- Stereotypes of pathology : the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle : Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal : the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era : 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body : a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s to the present -- The Jewish patient : Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The 'real' Jewish bodies of oligarchs : important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body : the new racial science.
Embodied Differences
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Author : Henrietta Mondry
language : en
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Embodied Differences written by Henrietta Mondry and has been published by Academic Studies PRess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew’s body in relation to the material world in order either to establish and reinforce, or to subvert and challenge, dominant cultural norms and stereotypes. It examines the use of physical characteristics, embodied practices, tacit knowledge and senses to define the body taxonomically as normative, different, abject or mimetically desired. Starting from the works of Gogol and Dostoevsky through to contemporary Russian-Jewish women’s writing, broadening the scope to examining the role of objects, museum displays and the politics of heritage food, the book argues that materiality can embody fictional constructions that should be approached on a culture-specific basis.
Jewish Frontiers
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Author : S. Gilman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-07-10
Jewish Frontiers written by S. Gilman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-10 with Religion categories.
In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and identity, and the place of Jews in today's multicultural society.