Jews in the early modern English imagination: a scattered nation
Locating the Jews. Maps of captivity, dispersion and wandering -- In the ghetto, on the mountain top -- Inside the synagogue -- Observing the religion of the Jews. Sacred texts, cursed fables -- Worship and wild gestures -- Circumcision -- Domestic duties, devotions, and ceremonies -- Framing Jewish...
| Zusammenfassung: | Locating the Jews. Maps of captivity, dispersion and wandering -- In the ghetto, on the mountain top -- Inside the synagogue -- Observing the religion of the Jews. Sacred texts, cursed fables -- Worship and wild gestures -- Circumcision -- Domestic duties, devotions, and ceremonies -- Framing Jewish bodies and souls. Bodies distinctively apparelled -- Looks, shapes and sizes -- A Jew within -- "Mercuriall wits" and "violent passions |
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| Beschreibung: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1409411915 |