The Absent Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Absent Jews write by Cordelia Hess. This book was released on 2017-05-01. The Absent Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia—the result, supposedly, of the ruling Teutonic Order’s attempts to create a purely Christian crusader’s state. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, however, medievalist Cordelia Hess demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests. In exacting detail, she traces this narrative to the work of a single, minor Nazi-era historian, revealing it to be ideologically compromised work that badly mishandles its evidence. By combining new medieval scholarship with a biographical and historiographical exploration grounded in the 20th century, The Absent Jews spans remote eras while offering a fascinating account of the construction of historical knowledge.
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History write by Simone Lässig. This book was released on 2017-06-01. Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of “the spatial,” these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.
The Spectral Jew
The Spectral Jew - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spectral Jew write by Steven F. Kruger. This book was released on 2006. The Spectral Jew available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval European culture encompassed Judaic, Christian, Muslim, and pagan societies, forming a complex matrix of religious belief, identity, and imagination. Through incisive readings of a broad range of medieval texts and informed by poststructuralist, queer, and feminist theories, The Spectral Jew traces the Jewish presence in Western Europe to show how the body, gender, and sexuality were at the root of the construction of medieval religious anxieties, inconsistencies, and instabilities. Looking closely at how medieval Jewish and Christian identities are distinguished from each other, yet intimately intertwined, Kruger demonstrates how Jews were often corporealized in ways that posited them as inferior to Christians—archaic and incapable of change—even as the two mutually shaped each other. But such attempts to differentiate Jews and Christians were inevitably haunted by the knowledge that Christianity had emerged out of Judaism and was, in its own self-understanding, a community of converts. Examining the points of contact between Christian and Jewish communities, Kruger discloses the profound paradox of the Jew as different in all ways, yet capable of converting to fully Christian status. He draws from central medieval authors and texts such as Peter Damian, Guibert of Nogent, the Barcelona Disputation, and the Hebrew chronicles of the First Crusade, as well as lesser known writings such as the disputations of Ceuta, Majorca, and Tortosa and the immensely popular Dialogues of Peter Alfonsi. By putting the conversion narrative at the center of this analysis, Kruger exposes it as a disruption of categories rather than a smooth passage and reveals the prominent role Judaism played in the medieval Christian imagination. Steven F. Kruger is professor of English and medieval studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is author of several books and editor with Glenn Burger of Queering the Middle Ages (Minnesota, 2001).
Under Crescent and Cross
Under Crescent and Cross - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under Crescent and Cross write by Mark R. Cohen. This book was released on 1994. Under Crescent and Cross available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the Jews in the Middle ages
Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals
Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals write by Mira Wasserman. This book was released on 2017-05-19. Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human.
