Inventing the Jew

Inventing the Jew
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9780803224612
ISBN-13 : 0803224613
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Book Synopsis Inventing the Jew by : Andrei Oisteanu

Download or read book Inventing the Jew written by Andrei Oisteanu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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