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" Inventing the Jew : "
Andrei Oișteanu ; foreword by Moshe Idel ; translated from Romanian by Mirela Adăscăliței
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BL
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702205
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b524394
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| Main Entry
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Oișteanu, Andrei
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Inventing the Jew : : antisemitic stereotypes in Romanian and other Central East-European cultures /\ Andrei Oișteanu ; foreword by Moshe Idel ; translated from Romanian by Mirela Adăscăliței
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Lincoln :: Published by the University of Nebraska Press for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,, ©2009
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Studies in antisemitism
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xii, 468 pages ;; 24 cm
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0803220987
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: 9780803220980
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The physical portrait -- The occupational portrait -- The moral and intellectual portrait -- The mythical and magical portrait -- The religious portrait
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Inventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of 'high' cultures (literature, essays, press writings, and socio-political literature), 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, Armenians, and Greeks. The gap between the conception of the 'imaginary Jew' and the 'real Jew' is a cultural distance that differs over time and place, here seen through the lens of cultural anthropology. Stereotypes of the 'generic Jew' were not exclusively negative, and are described in chapters on the physical and professional portrait, the moral and intellectual, the magic and mythological, and religious images
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Antisemitism-- Europe, Eastern
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Antisemitism-- Romania
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Jews in popular culture-- Europe, Eastern
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)-- Europe, Eastern
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Europe, Eastern, Ethnic relations
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DS146.R6O38 2009
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Adăscăliței, Mirela
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