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1 online resource |
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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum; 1. "O beastly Jews": A Brief History of an (Un)Natural History; 2. Name that Varmint: From Gregor to Josephine; 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps; 4. "If you could see her through my eyes . . .": Semitic Simiantics; 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I: Carrying the Torch and Getting Singed; 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II: Deer I Say It; 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/New World, or Talk to the Animals |
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8. Dogged by Destiny: "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom quails sit non navit"Afterword. "It's clear as the light of day": The Shoah and the Human/Animal Great Divide; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Through close textual analysis, detailed historical contextualization, and critical animal theory Bestiarium Judaicum examines how and to what ends German-Jewish writers (including Freud, Heine, and Kafka) drew upon the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals disseminated for millennia to bestialize, debase, and justify the persecution of Jews |
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Antisemitism-response |
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Cultural-studies |
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German-Jewish writers |
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Human-animal-difference |
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Identification |
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Jewish Question |
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Question of the Animal |
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discourse-analysis |
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modernity |
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representation |
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Jews -- Identity -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Animals -- Symbolic aspects
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Antisemitism
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Jews -- Identity
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Metaphor in literature
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Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823275601 |
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0823275604 |
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9780823275618 |
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0823275612 |
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