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Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures

Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures

Oisteanu, Andrei
Idel, Moshe
Adascalitei, Mirela

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Antisemitism

JudaismAnthropologyEastern European History

ISBN10: 0803220987
ISBN13: 9780803220980
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Inventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of high cultures (including literature, essays, journalism, and sociopolitical writings), showing how motifs specific to folkloric antisemitism migrated to intellectual antisemitism. This comparative perspective also highlights how the images of Jews have differed from that of other strangers such as Hungarians, Germans, Roma, Turks, Armenians, and Greeks. The gap between the conception of the imaginary Jew and the real Jew is a cultural distance that differs over time and place, here seen through the lens of cultural anthropology.

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