The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe

by Jonathan Boyarin

Book Overview

Europe's formative encounter with its "others" is still widely assumed to have come with its discovery of the peoples of the New World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before 1492 Christian Europe imagined itself in distinction to the Jewish difference within. The presence and image of Jews in Europe afforded the Christian majority a foil against which it could refine and maintain its own identity. In fundamental ways this experience, along...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226069192
• ISBN13: 9780226069197
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"