The Jew's Body

by Sander L. Gilman

Book Overview

Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish mind and hysteria, and the Victorians' irrational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415904595
• ISBN13: 9780415904599
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary