Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures

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U of Nebraska Press, May 1, 2009 - Social Science - 481 pages
Inventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of "high" cultures (including literature, essays, journalism, and sociopolitical writings), showing how motifs specific to "folkloric antisemitism" migrated to "intellectual antisemitism." This comparative perspective also highlights how the images of Jews have differed from that of other "strangers" such as Hungarians, Germans, Roma, Turks.
 

Contents

The Imaginary Jew
1
The Physical Portrait
38
The Occupational Portrait
138
The Moral and Intellectual Portrait
228
The Mythical and Magical Portrait
310
The Religious Portrait
378
Index
459
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Andrei Oisteanu is a researcher at the Institute for the History of Religions in Bucharest, and associate professor at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Bucharest. He is the author of several books, including "The Image of the Jew in Romanian Culture, Order and Chaos: Myth and Magic in Romanian Traditional Culture," ""and "Religion, Politics, and Myth: Texts about Mircea Eliade and Ioan Petru Culianu."

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