This book is a study of a community under attack, and its goal is to describe, analyze, and illuminate the response of that community to a series of unexpected and deeply threatening developments. Just a few years after achieving full civil emancipation in 1871, the Jews of Germ…
The author claims that not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modern world, they have become the premiere symbol and standard of modern life everywhere. The Jews traditionally belonged to a social category known as "service nomads," an outsider…
The author claims that not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modern world, they have become the premiere symbol and standard of modern life everywhere. The Jews traditionally belonged to a social category known as "service nomads," an outsider…
"This book recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and illustrates the stories it tells and the questions it explores with a wide range of photographs, including a number never published before."--Jacket.
The chosen body: the politics of the body in Israeli society
by Weiss, Meira
fromContraversions
This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. The author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in Israel in a range of subjects. These include premarital and prenatal screening, the regulation of…
The chosen body: the politics of the body in Israeli society
by Weiss, Meira
fromContraversions
"This new Seminar Study attempts to cover a complex and controversial topic - the hatred of Jews over the past three thousand years. How can we best understand anti-Semitism? Albert Lindemann suggests that there is a middle ground between blaming the Jews and blaming the non-Jew…