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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 38: Gender and the Body in Eastern European Jewish History

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 38: Gender and the Body in Eastern European Jewish History

Guesnet, François
Bemporad, Elissa
Degler, Joanna

Hardcover

Series: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Book 38

JudaismGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1802070389
ISBN13: 9781802070385
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Jewish attitudes to the body, gender, and sexuality are traditionally influenced by religious considerations. Explorations in this volume extend to how communal and state-related concerns have intersected with the personal--in care for the elderly, birth control, white slavery, and burial, as well as in the recent entanglement of antisemitism and misogyny. Holocaust-related topics include gender-dependent perceptions of warfare; gender and pogrom violence; how impersonating diverse identities became a matter of survival; how the plunder of Jewish clothes engaged the bodies of both victims and bystanders; and how mass graves perpetuated a Jewish presence after the genocide. Other studies include how the Jewish body has been construed in fiction, ego-documents, and (queer) poetry, and how Jewish youth thought about sport. The volume concludes with four reflections on the embodied self.

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