Bestiarium Judaicum : unnatural histories of the Jews /

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Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals disseminated for millennia to debase and bestialize Jews (the Bestiarium Judaicum), this work asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers employ such figures in their narratives and poems? Bringing together Jewish cult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geller, Jay, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
1800-1999
Jews > Identity > History > 19th century.
Jews > Identity > History > 20th century.
Antisemitism.
Metaphor in literature.
Animals > Symbolic aspects.
Juifs > Identité > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Juifs > Identité > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Antisémitisme.
Métaphore dans la littérature.
Animaux > Aspect symbolique.
antisemitism.
Jews > Identity.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum
  • 1. O beastly Jews: A Brief History of an (Un)Natural History
  • 2. Name that Varmint: From Gregor to Josephine
  • 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps
  • 4. If you could see her through my eyes . . .: Semitic Simiantics
  • 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I: Carrying the Torch and Getting Singed
  • 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II: Deer I Say It
  • 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/New World, or Talk to the Animals
  • 8. Dogged by Destiny: Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom quails sit non navit
  • Afterword. It's clear as the light of day: The Shoah and the Human/Animal Great Divide

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