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Bestiarium Judaicum : Unnatural Histories of the Jews /

Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals-pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, Bestiarium Judaicum asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories? Focusing on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geller, Jay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]
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  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • abbreviations
  • Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum
  • chapter 1. "O beastly Jews"
  • chapter 2. Name That Varmint
  • chapter 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps
  • chapter 4. "If you could see her through my eyes . . ."
  • chapter 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I
  • chapter 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II
  • chapter 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/ New World, or Talk to the Animals
  • chapter 8. Dogged by Destiny
  • afterword. "It's clear as the light of day"
  • acknowledgments
  • notes
  • references
  • index