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The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition

2021réf. 52257Leiden: Brill 2021. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xii 291 1pp. Index. Illustrated green boards with purple red and green spines lettered in white. Illustrated with 10 text figures some in color. A fine as new copy. "Angels are the ultimate stranger. They come from another world and have a special place in the art of the Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall 1887-1985. In My Life 1923 the young Chagall recalls one memorable night in Saint-Petersburg. Drifting into sleep in the corner of a room all he could afford he suddenly saw the ceiling open and a winged being surrounded by light and blue air hovered above him before disappearing through the ceiling again"-- OCLC Contributions from history philosophy religion sociology literature and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict in processes of attribution and allegation but also self-reflection and negotiation focused on the figure of the stranger. Throughout history Jews have often been regarded and treated as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Publisher Contents: Copyright /; Editors: Catherine Bartlett and Joachim Schlör --; Notes on Contributors /; Editors: Catherine Bartlett and Joachim Schlör --; Chapter 1 Introduction /; Author: Catherine Bartlett --; Chapter 2 "The Penitents" /; Author: Eyal Davidson --; Chapter 3 The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem /; Author: Michael T. Miller --; Chapter 4 Rights of the Stranger in Jewish Moral /; Author: Mathias Berek --; Chapter 5 The Origins of the Stranger /; Author: Søren Blak Hjortshøj --; Chapter 6 The Jewish Stranger in Germany and America /; Author: Chad Alan Goldberg --; Chapter 7 Friendly Strangers in Their Own Land No More /; Author: Dani Kranz --; Chapter 8 "They Are Not My People" /; Author: Federico Dal Bo --; Chapter 9 Between Language and Ethnicity /; Author: Olga Tabachnikova --; Chapter 10 Jews as Strangers Strangers as Jews in the Twentieth-Century French Novel /; Author: Maxime Decout --; Chapter 11 Exorcizing the Stranger /; Author: Efraim Sicher --; Chapter 12 Muslims as Brothers or Strangers French Jewish Thinkers Confront the Moral Dilemmas of the French-Algerian War /; Author: Ethan B. Katz --; Chapter 13 The Christian Orphan as the Stranger in Nineteenth-Century European Jewish Fiction /; Author: Catherine Bartlett --; Chapter 14 The Strange Face and Form of the Stranger in Levinas /; Author: Benda Hofmeyr --; Chapter 15 Conclusion: Jews and Strangers. Perspective from History /; Author: Joachim Schlör --; Index /; Editors: Catherine Bartlett and Joachim Schlör. OCLC Volume 67 of the Brill series "Studies in Jewish History and Culture" SJHC. Brill hardcover books