The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472128590
Total Pages : 285 pages
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Book Synopsis The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time by : Miriamne Ara Krummel

Download or read book The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time written by Miriamne Ara Krummel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord]. Christian temporality represents Jewish time as queerly oddly outmoded and advocating uncivil and socially disruptive behavior. Jewish temporality, in turn, records a marginalized people who work to rescue their embattled temporality from becoming a time forgotten and colonized. Through a select group of literature in Middle English, Latin, and Hebrew, as well as sixteen manuscript pictorials, author Miriamne Ara Krummel confronts the notion that annus domini time (whether disguised as CE or AD) figures as the universal standard. Krummel’s argument details how Other temporalities—ones outside and not like annus domini time—are cast as nonstandard and imagined as wholly devised out of stories that promote fear and terror, and are positioned as putative threats to the fabric of the temporal empire of Latin Christendom. Ultimately, the book reflects on the ways in which “common” time both marks and silences marginal identities and cultures and shows to what extent the dynamics of the medieval environment materialize in our modern world.

The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132377
Total Pages : 285 pages
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Download or read book The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time written by Miriamne Ara Krummel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Calculating Time: Eosturmonath, Nisan, and the Paschal Table -- Just In Time: Sacrificial Gifts, Rotting Corpses, and Annus Domini -- An (Un)Common Era: Passionate Narratives, Temporal Clashes-Jewish and Christian -- Taking Jews out and Putting Them Back in: Christian Chronometry, the York Massacre, and a Cycle of Mystery Plays -- A Time of Many Layers: Feasting on the Temporalities of The Siege of Jerusalem -- Repressing a Perpetually Resurfacing Temporality: Four Authorial Orphans and The Fifteenth-Century 'Tale of the Litel Clergeon and the Jews' -- Epilogue: The Empire of Common Time.

The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501512099
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature by : Erin K. Wagner

Download or read book The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature written by Erin K. Wagner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that become collated with heretic in the parlance of medieval English writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and subverted marginalized or vulnerable identities to promote a false image of unassailable authority.

Instrument of Memory

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472903950
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Book Synopsis Instrument of Memory by : Lisa Lampert-Weissig

Download or read book Instrument of Memory written by Lisa Lampert-Weissig and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused him rest, cruelly taunting him to hurry to meet his fate. In response, Jesus cursed the man to wander until the Second Coming. Since the medieval period, the legend has inspired hundreds of adaptations by artists and writers. Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew, the first English-language study of the legend in over fifty years, is also the first to examine the influence of the legend’s medieval and early modern sources over the centuries into the present day. Using the lens of memory studies, the work shows how the Christian tradition of the legend centered the memory of the Passion at the heart of the Wandering Jew’s curse. Instrument of Memory also shows how Jewish artists and writers have reimagined the legend through Jewish memory traditions. Through this focus on memory, Jewish adapters of the legend create complex renderings of the Wandering Jew that recognize not only the entanglement of Jewish and Christian memory, but also the impact of that entanglement on Jewish subjects. This book presents a complex, sympathetic, and more fully realized version of the legend while challenging the limits of the presentism of memory studies.

Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350052167
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History by : Iris Idelson-Shein

Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History written by Iris Idelson-Shein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

How the West Became Antisemitic

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069125821X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis How the West Became Antisemitic by : Ivan G. Marcus

Download or read book How the West Became Antisemitic written by Ivan G. Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God’s chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In How the West Became Antisemitic, Ivan Marcus shows how Christian and Jewish competition in medieval Europe laid the foundation for modern antisemitism. Marcus explains that Jews accepted Christians as misguided practitioners of their ancestral customs, but regarded Christianity as idolatry. Christians, on the other hand, looked at Jews themselves—not Judaism—as despised. They directed their hatred at a real and imagined Jew: theoretically subordinate, but sometimes assertive, an implacable “enemy within.” In their view, Jews were permanently and physically Jewish—impossible to convert to Christianity. Thus Christians came to hate Jews first for religious reasons, and eventually for racial ones. Even when Jews no longer lived among them, medieval Christians could not forget their former neighbors. Modern antisemitism, based on the imagined Jew as powerful and world dominating, is a transformation of this medieval hatred. A sweeping and well-documented history of the rivalry between Jewish and Christian civilizations during the making of Europe, How the West Became Antisemitic is an ambitious new interpretation of the medieval world and its impact on modernity.

In and Out of the Ghetto

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521522892
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Book Synopsis In and Out of the Ghetto by : R. Po-Chia Hsia

Download or read book In and Out of the Ghetto written by R. Po-Chia Hsia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.

The Postcolonial Middle Ages

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107346
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Middle Ages by : J. Cohen

Download or read book The Postcolonial Middle Ages written by J. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a wide-spread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement. This collection of essays is the first to apply post-colonial theory to the Middle Ages, and to critique that theory through the excavation of a distant past. The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which 'aboriginal' 'native' or simply pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed.

In and Out, Between and Beyond

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ISBN 13 : 9789655995039
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis In and Out, Between and Beyond by : Elisheva Baumgarten

Download or read book In and Out, Between and Beyond written by Elisheva Baumgarten and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, produced for the exhibition In and Out, Between and Beyond, presents the scholarly work of a group of historians who study the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in dialogue with the work of contemporary Israeli artists. This is one of the culminating projects of the European Research Council-funded research group Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe. Since the inception of the project (fall 2016), the team has worked to construct a history which includes those who were not part of the learned elite as well as those who were learned, about whom we know more. The research team trained its sights on everyday moments, investigating daily routines and the ways medieval Jews understood their lives amidst their host cultures. At the heart of this work is the complexity of the circumstances in which medieval Jews lived: the integration of Ashkenazic Jews within their Christian surroundings, alongside their maintenance of a distinct religious identity. To complement the medieval study underlying this endeavor, the exhibit's curator, Dr. Ido Noy, orchestrated a fruitful exchange between the research team and seven Israeli artists, who then produced contemporary expressions of the historic ideas under discussion. This book, mirroring the structure of the exhibit, is comprised of sixteen articles. Each one is built around a primary source from a particular literary genre. The colorful catalogue at the end of the volume documents the objects created especially for the exhibition that was displayed physically at the gallery on the Mount Scopus campus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and can still be viewed virtually." -- back cover.

The Jew in the Medieval World

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Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jew in the Medieval World by : Jacob Rader Marcus

Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by Jacob Rader Marcus and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1969 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medieval Judaism may be considered under two aspects: what the world did to the Jew and what the Jew did for himself. Both aspects are interrelated, but not necessarily dependent. Whether the world had been benign and pacific or--as it was--hostile and cruel, the Jew would still have prayed, studied, entered professions, traveled, organized communal endeavors, in a phrase, pursued the normal activities of social life. To the extent, however, that he was harassed and persecuted, the Jew responded: he defended himself and replied to his enemies. Jacob R(ader) Marcus, Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College, has gathered, edited, and introduced those documents from the medieval literature which illuminate the Jewish community in both aspects: as self-contained society (the documents relating to Jewish self-government; Jewish sectarianism, mysticism, messianism; the inner life of the Jew; the lives and works of Jewish notables--Rashi, Maimonides, Glückel of Hameln, Solomon Maimon, among others) and as society-on-sufferance in an alien world (the Jewish situation under Roman law, under Islam, under Visigoths; treatment at the hands of the feudal and monarchical societies, the Roman Catholic Church and the reformers).--Back cover.

Powers of Horror

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231561415
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Powers of Horror by : Julia Kristeva

Download or read book Powers of Horror written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.

The Jew in the Medieval Community

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jew in the Medieval Community by : James William Parkes

Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval Community written by James William Parkes and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jew in the Medieval World

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Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328927
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jew in the Medieval World by : Jacob R. Marcus

Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by Jacob R. Marcus and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1938, this sourcebook presents 137 documents that deal with individual Jews and the Jewish community during the Jewish Middle Ages. It offers a sweeping view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity until modern times, with introductions and annotations to make these sources accessible to the modern reader.

The Repeating Island

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822318651
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (186 download)

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Book Synopsis The Repeating Island by : Antonio Benitez-Rojo

Download or read book The Repeating Island written by Antonio Benitez-Rojo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

Colonialism and the Jews

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253024625
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Colonialism and the Jews by : Ethan B. Katz

Download or read book Colonialism and the Jews written by Ethan B. Katz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included.

Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages

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Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313328657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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Book Synopsis Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages by : Norman Roth

Download or read book Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages written by Norman Roth and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though certainly not untouched by tragedy, the historical period of the Middle Ages was a dynamic and prosperous time for Jewish civilization; for despite the mass expulsions and periodic attacks that the Jews of the time suffered, they also managed prolonged periods of at least civil relations with the Christian and Muslim cultures that surrounded them, periods in which the Jewish culture at large produced great poetry and important philosophical and theological works, and made inspired contributions to mathematics and the sciences. Accessible to the general reader but enlightening also to the scholar, Norman Roth's account of the diverse and diffuse culture of Jewish daily life in the medieval world offers a direct look on this profoundly historical people, who through their unique relationship with the cultures that surrounded them touched obliquely on so much else in the world of the Middle Ages—as well as on that of the present day. For ease of use by students, the work is organized into chapters covering all aspects of daily life: education, marriage and family life, the Jewish community at large, religious customs and observances, work, medicine, literature and the arts, the dangers of being Jewish, and the relationship between Jews and Gentiles. It includes a historical timeline of the critical events in the Jewish experience of the middle ages, a glossary of terms, and a bibliography for further reading. Throughout the work Roth shows the circumstances surrounding and at times invading Jewish life at the time, and paints a picture that is at once intimate and also comprehensive. This work will provide school and public librarians with a resource on Jewish culture that is unique, highly informative, historically accurate, and compelling to a high degree.

The Jew in the Medieval World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: