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9780700715879

The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture: A History of the Other

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    9780700715879

  • ISBN10:

    0700715878

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-11-27
  • Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

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Summary

The evolving image of the Black in the history of Jewish culture is being traced here in the conceptual framework of recent post-modern theories of the 'other'. The study focuses on the mechanisms by which an ethno-religious minority group considered by the dominant majority to be the inferior 'other', identifies its own inferior other. While until recently most scholarly attention has been devoted to the attitudes towards the Jews as 'other', this is the first comprehensive discussion of the attitudes of the Jews to their own 'others'.

Author Biography

Abraham Melamed is Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Thought at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Note on the translated quotations viii
Introduction 1(8)
Dream and interpretation: `Two blacks, hideous to see'
9(6)
Sources of the symbol: `I am black but comely'
15(38)
In the Bible: `The children of Cush'
53(7)
In the literature of the Sages: `Ugly and black'
60(62)
In the cultural world of Islam: `Speech in its least developed form'
122(27)
In the Latin--Christian cultural world: `Beasts in all their ways'
149(47)
In the wake of exploration: `Naked and awash in lust'
196(28)
Afterword 224(2)
Notes 226(47)
Bibliography 273(12)
Index of sources 285(4)
Subject index 289

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