Sons of Saviors : The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture /

Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary people who populated a shared Jewish-Christian imagination. But in fact the red variant of the Ten...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Voß, Rebekka (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:Jewish culture and contexts.
Subjects:
Redheads > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Folk literature, Yiddish.
Jews > Europe > Identity > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
Jews > Identity.
Europe.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Note on Translations and Transliteration
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Visual Thinking in Yiddish
  • Chapter 1. Red Jews: A Medieval Christian Label
  • Chapter 2. Reclaiming Red: The Red Jews in Early Modern Yiddish
  • Chapter 3. The Little Red Jew: A Vernacular Icon of Ashkenazic Identity
  • Chapter 4. From West to East and Beyond Yiddish: The Transmission History of Ma'aseh Akdamut
  • Chapter 5. Into Modernity: The Wandering Jew in Bright Red
  • Epilogue. An Old Yiddish Legend in a Brooklyn Fridge
  • Appendix. Ma'aseh Akdamut
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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