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Title The Jewish body : corporeality, society, and identity in the Renaissance and early modern period / edited by Maria Diemling and Giuseppe Veltri
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 488 pages) : illustrations, music
Series Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 17
Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 17.
Contents Contributors; Introduction; Part I The Body in Historical and Social Context; The Rise of the Body in Early Modern Jewish Society: The Italian Case Study (Roni Weinstein); Jewish Bodies and Renaissance Melancholy: Culture and the City in Italy and the Ottoman Empire (Eleazar Gutwirth); ""Den ikh bin treyfe gevezn"": Body Perceptions in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Autobiographical Texts (Maria Diemling)
""Who Knows What the Cause Is?"": ""Natural"" and ""Unnatural"" Causes for Illness in the Writings of Ba'alei Shem, Doctors and Patients among German Jews in the Eighteenth Century (Nimrod Zinger)Part II The Halakhic Body; ""La'avodat Bor'o"": The Body in the Shul.han Arukh of R. Joseph Caro (Jeffrey R. Woolf); Virginity: Women's Body as a State of Mind: Destiny Becomes Biology (Howard Tzvi Adelman); Mental and Bodily Malfunctioning in Marriage: Evidence from Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Responsa from the Ottoman Empire and Poland (Ruth Berger); Part III Body, Mind and Soul
On the Performing Body in Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalah: Some Preliminary Remarks (Moshe Idel)Giving Birth to the Hebrew Author: Two Compositions by Johanan Alemanno (Arthur M. Lesley); The Idea of Beauty in Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel) (Sergius Kodera); Body of Conversion and the Immortality of the Soul: The ""Beautiful Jewess"" Sara Copio Sullam (Giuseppe Veltri); Part IV The Body in Jewish-Christian Discourse; Shaping the Body of the Godhead: The Adaptation of the Androgynous Motif in Early Christian Kabbalah (Saverio Campanini)
The Human Body as a Musical Instrument in the Sermons of Judah Moscato (Gianfranco Miletto)Angelic Embodiment and the Feminine Representation of Jesus: Reconstructing Carnality in the Christian Kabbalah of Johann Kemper (Elliot R. Wolfson); ""Adonai con voi"" (1569), a Simple Popular Song with a Complicated Semantic about (what seems to be) Circumcision (Don Harrán); Index of Subjects; Index of Persons
Summary This volume explores perceptions of the ""Jewish body"" in variety of early modern Jewish sources. It discusses, among other topics, ideas of the ideal body in normative sources, the influence of Kabbalistic ideas on Jewish-Christian discourse and the link between melancholy and exile
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Human body -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Body image -- Social aspects
Jews -- Identity.
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Jews -- History -- 70-1789.
Group identity.
Jews -- history
Body Image
Human Body
Cultural Characteristics -- history
Social Identification
group identity.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology.
Group identity
Body image -- Social aspects
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Human body -- Social aspects
Jews
Jews -- Identity
Människokroppen -- religiösa aspekter -- judendom.
Människokroppen -- religiösa aspekter -- kristendom.
Judar -- historia -- 1500-1800.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Diemling, Maria.
Veltri, Giuseppe.
ISBN 9789047442097
9047442091
1282398962
9781282398962
9786612398964
6612398965