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Esther Benbassa and Jean-Christophe Attias show that alterity is a useful and morally compelling notion with which to structure Judaism's historically specific and politically charged encounters with deity, femininity, Christianity, and Islam.



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"This is a rich summation of the resources and challenges of Jewish identity and difference at the turn of the third Christian millennium. Committed, lucid, critical, and informed, it exemplifies a vibrantly human science of Jewishness." -- Jonathan Boyarin, author of Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory and Thinking in Jewish

The Jew and the Other

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    A Hardback by Esther Benbassa, Jean-Christophe Attias, Geoffrey M. Goshgarian

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 03/08/2004
      ISBN13: 9780801442476, 978-0801442476
      ISBN10: 0801442478
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      History of religion Judaism life and practice

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Esther Benbassa and Jean-Christophe Attias show that alterity is a useful and morally compelling notion with which to structure Judaism's historically specific and politically charged encounters with deity, femininity, Christianity, and Islam.



      Trade Review
      "This is a rich summation of the resources and challenges of Jewish identity and difference at the turn of the third Christian millennium. Committed, lucid, critical, and informed, it exemplifies a vibrantly human science of Jewishness." -- Jonathan Boyarin, author of Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory and Thinking in Jewish

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