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Sinopsis
A focused, accessible look at how the idea of the Jewish specter has shaped culture and history. This nonfiction study examines how popular images of Israel, Judah, and the Jew mingle in language, myth, and memory. It takes you through the folding of ancient identities into modern views, using careful analysis and quotations to illuminate the topic without sensationalism.
This edition frames the scope and value with clear questions about identity, belief, and civilization. It situates Jewish history within a broader world, showing how ideas travel, transform, and endure across centuries.
- Explains how terms like Israel, Judah, and Jew have been used and blended in popular thought.
- Explores the mix of religious imagination and secular history in shaping collective memory.
- Connects Jewish history to broader civilizations, including Greece and Rome, to show interchanges of ideas.
- Includes concise quotes and reflections that illuminate the central premise without spoilers.
Ideal for readers of history, religious studies, and cultural critique seeking a thoughtful, accessible examination of how images of the Jewish people have persisted and transformed over time.
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We have here, in the foregoing citations, the composite spectre of Israel and the Jew in nearly every aspect. It com bines the preternatural, the supernatural, the superhuman, and the embodied divine outshining upon the earth. I am sorry to drop down from these sublime heights and speak of vulgar things, but now for many pages I must come to a lower level of this dream country.
I must defer to a later chapter remarks on the spectre in Europe; and now merely say that leroy-beaulieu gives us, in the picture quoted below, an indication of the romantic view with which modern history teems. He says of the Jews of Europe' They are like birds just liberated from their cages, so swift is their flight; they were seen to dart from twig to twig of the thickly branched tree of our modern civilisation, as though none of its parts were beyond the reach of their wings.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Jewish Spectre is now visible in both hemispheres; it hovers over New York as it long has done over Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London. But, accustomed as we are to the incoming of foreign peoples, it is not the apparition of an exotic race among us that gives my subject its greatest importance. The question would be very simple, and no more puzzling than the interference of other people in the affairs of our modern life, were it not for the hovering vision of Israel that is thrown upon the screen of our religious consciousness. This spectre carries on its front for us, in our childlike and experimental condition of mind, many of the mysteries of the whence and whither of life, and of the terrors of death; and stands for us in such a relation that it seems to many to be religion itself. It seems as though the whole fabric of our theology would fall to the ground without this "Israel" - though we sometimes fancy we could get along without Judah.
Most of us seem to think that Israel and Judah are exchangeable if not synonymous terms. They were once quite distinct; and they might be still, were it not for that tendency in our language to blend and weave, in the interest of the romantic and wonderful, unrelated words and images. We divide our modern races into specific nationalities, as we also do the profane races of antiquity; but it is only by the greatest sacrifices that we pull Israel and Judah apart. No one has ever yet written a history of the Jews without at least a preliminary chapter on the Israelites.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This profound study examines the enduring fascination with Jewish culture, history, and identity. The author explores the concept of the 'Jewish Spectre', a composite, romanticized, and mystical perception that has shaped perceptions of Jewish people for centuries, tracing its origins from ancient stereotypes to contemporary societal trends. Through an analysis of literature, art, and folklore, the book uncovers the complex and often contradictory ways in which the Jewish experience has been interpreted and represented. It challenges simplistic notions of Jewish history, shedding light on the intricate relationship between reality and imagination in shaping our understanding of this diverse and resilient community. The book's insights offer a nuanced perspective on the ways in which the Jewish experience has left a profound imprint on Western culture and thought. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781330290477_0
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