Chaucer and the Jews: sources, contexts, meanings
Chaucer and the Jews: sources, contexts, meanings
"Jews were expelled from England in 1290, about half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer's birth. But Jews and their culture continued to play in important role in the English Christian imagination throughout the late Middle Ages, in the work of Chaucer and his contemporaries. How…
Examining more than a dozen films from Jewish artists, this book reveals how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. It focuses on Jewish filmmakers working on the margins and examines the work of…
Examines the silence of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust and explores the process of theological change, from the speechless Vatican to those Catholics who endeavored to find a new language to speak to the Jews.
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be uncha…
Argues that most of the non-Jewish 19th-century German authors considered here expressed both antisemitic and philosemitic views. Focuses on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, but also discusses works by Karl Gutzkow, Bettine von Arnim, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Friedrich Hebbel, Gus…