Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century

by Iris Idelson-Shein

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246098
• ISBN13: 9780812246094
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"