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Bestiarium Judaicum : unnatural histories of the Jews /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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