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Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of Pennsylvania Press<\/a>
\n2014
\n280 pages
\n6 x 9
\n12 illus.
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4609-4
\nEbook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0970-9<\/p>\n

Iris Idelson-Shein<\/a><\/strong>, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
\nMartin Buber Professur f\u00fcr J\u00fcdische Religionsphilosophie
\nGoethe University, Frankfurt am Main<\/em><\/p>\n

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European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein, occupied a particular place in the development of modern racial discourse during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Simultaneously inhabitants and outsiders in Europe, considered both foreign and familiar, Jews adopted a complex perspective on otherness and race. Often themselves the objects of anthropological scrutiny, they internalized, adapted, and revised the emerging discourse of racial difference to meet their own ends.<\/p>\n

Difference of a Different Kind<\/em> explores Jewish perceptions and representations of otherness during the formative period in the history of racial thought. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including philosophical and scientific works, halakhic literature, and folktales, Idelson-Shein unfolds the myriad ways in which eighteenth-century Jews imagined the “exotic Other” and how the evolving discourse of racial difference played into the construction of their own identities. Difference of a Different Kind<\/em> offers an invaluable view into the ways new religious, cultural, and racial identities were imagined and formed at the outset of modernity.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n