{"product_id":"difference-of-a-different-kind-9780812246094","title":"Difference of a Different Kind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuropean 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 racial difference to meet their own ends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDifference of a Different Kind\u003c\/i\u003e explores Jewish perceptions and representations of otherness during the formative period in the history of racial thought. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including philosophical and scientific works, halakhic literature, and folktales, Idelson-Shein unfolds the myriad ways in which eighteenth-century Jews imagined the exotic Other and how the evolving discourse of racial difference played into the construction of their own identities. \u003ci\u003eDifference of a D\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome addition. . . . This book focuses on the Jewish attitude toward race as it evolved in the so-called long eighteenth century, mostly during the Jewish Enlightenment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Iris Idelson-Shein gives us a window into a far richer and much more dynamic interplay between the Jewish and the non-Jewish world than what one finds in most scholarship on the Haskalah. She contextualizes her readings with exemplary rigor, breadth, and elegance. Idelson-Shein's prose truly sparkles, and each of the chapters is a sheer pleasure to read, full of narrative drive, stylistic sophistication, and conceptual subtlety. \u003ci\u003eDifference of a Different Kind\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful book that delivers an original argument in a lucid and elegant manner.\" * Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *\u003cbr\u003e\"A substantial and well-researched study of the complexities of racial thinking in the European Jewish Enlightenment. Iris Idelson-Shein covers an extraordinary range of topics: rape, infanticide, the savage, hirsute peoples, miscegenation, children's books, issues of translation, and the formation of scientific racism.\" * Felicity Nussbaum, University of California, Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Translations and Transliterations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 An East Indian Encounter: Rape and Infanticide in the Memoirs of Glikl Bas Leib\u003cbr\u003e 2 \"And Let him Speak\": Noble and Ignoble Savages in Yehudah Horowitz's \u003ci\u003eAmudey beyt Yehudah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 Whitewashing Jewish Darkness: Baruch Lindau and the \"Species\" of Man\u003cbr\u003e 4 Fantasies of Acculturation: Campe's Savages in the Service of the Haskalah\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. A Terrible Tale: Some Final Thoughts on Jews and Race\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405723574615,"sku":"9780812246094","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812246094.jpg?v=1730493397","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/difference-of-a-different-kind-9780812246094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}