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The Jewish Body: A History (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Robert Jütte; Elizabeth Bredeck; De Gruyter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Jewish Body: A History (Jewish Culture and Contexts) about?

An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte asks, should a historian bother with the Jewish body in particular? And is the "Jewish body" as much a concept constructed over the course of centuries by Jews and non-Jews alike as it is a physical reality? To comprehend the notion and existence of a Jewish body, he contends, one needs to look both at the images and traits that have been ascribed to Jews by themselves and others, and to the specific bodily practices that have played an important role in creating the identity of a religious and cultural community. Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, often for anti-Jewish purposes. He examines the techniques for caring for the body that Jews acquire in childhood from parents and authority figures and how these have changed over the course of a more than 2000-year history, most of it spent

Who reads The Jewish Body: A History (Jewish Culture and Contexts)?

Author

Robert Jütte; Elizabeth Bredeck; De Gruyter

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812297652

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Judaism, World History