John M Efron (108 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic Jewry as insular and backward, a result of Christian persecution, they depicted the Sephardim as worldly, morally and intellectually superior, and beautiful, products of the tolerant Muslim environment in which they lived. In this elegantly written book, John Efron looks in depth at the special allure Sephardic aesthetics held for German Jewry.Efron examines how German Jews idealized the sound of Sephardic Hebrew and the Sephardim's physical and moral beauty, and shows how the allure of the Sephardic found expression in neo-Moorish synagogue architecture, historical novels, and romanticized depictions of Sephardic history. He argues that the shapers of German-Jewish culture imagined medieval Iberian Jewry as an exemplary Jewish community, bound by tradition yet fully at home in the dominant culture of Muslim Spain. Efron argues that the myth of Sephardic superiority was actually an expression of withering self-critique by German Jews who, by seeking to transform Ashkenazic culture and win the acceptance of German society, hoped to enter their own golden age.Stimulating and provocative, this book demonstrates how the goal of this aesthetic self-refashioning was not assimilation but rather the creation of a new form of German-Jewish identity inspired by Sephardic beauty.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic Jewry as insular and backward, a result of Christian persecution, they depicted the Sephardim as worldly, morally and intellectually superior, and beautiful, products of the tolerant Muslim environment in which they lived. In this elegantly written book, John Efron looks in depth at the special allure Sephardic aesthetics held for German Jewry.Efron examines how German Jews idealized the sound of Sephardic Hebrew and the Sephardim's physical and moral beauty, and shows how the allure of the Sephardic found expression in neo-Moorish synagogue architecture, historical novels, and romanticized depictions of Sephardic history. He argues that the shapers of German-Jewish culture imagined medieval Iberian Jewry as an exemplary Jewish community, bound by tradition yet fully at home in the dominant culture of Muslim Spain. Efron argues that the myth of Sephardic superiority was actually an expression of withering self-critique by German Jews who, by seeking to transform Ashkenazic culture and win the acceptance of German society, hoped to enter their own golden age.Stimulating and provocative, this book demonstrates how the goal of this aesthetic self-refashioning was not assimilation but rather the creation of a new form of German-Jewish identity inspired by Sephardic beauty.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. This text describes the response of Jewish race scientists in the late 1800s to the question of whether there was a biological basis for Jewish distinctiveness and social development and the complex factors involved in the debate.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. This text describes the response of Jewish race scientists in the late 1800s to the question of whether there was a biological basis for Jewish distinctiveness and social development and the complex factors involved in the debate.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry. In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set of codified regulations concerning forbidden and permissible meats, highly prescribed methods of killing, and elaborate rules governing consumption, meat is one of the most visible, and gustatory, markers of Jewish distinctness and social separation. It is an object of tangible, touchable, and tastable difference like no other. In All Consuming, historian John M. Efron focuses on the contested culture of meat and its role in the formation of ethnic identities in Germany. To an extent not seen elsewhere in Europe, Germans have identified, thought about, studied, decried, and gladly eaten meat understood to be "Jewish." Expressions of this engagement are found across the cultural landscapein literature, sculpture, and visual artsand evident in legal codes and commercial enterprises. Likewise, Jews in Germany have vigorously defended their meats and the culture and rituals surrounding them by educating Germans and Jews alike about their meaning and relevance. Exploring a cultural history that extends some seven hundred years, from the Middle Ages to today, Efron goes beyond a discussion of dietary laws and ritual slaughter to take a broad view of what meat can tell us about German-Jewish identity and culinary culture, Jewish and Christian religious sensibilities, and religious freedom for minorities in Germany. In so doing, he provides a singular window into the rich, fraught, and ultimately tragic history of German Jewry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library book, DJ beneath library plastic, flaps glued neatly inside covers, gray and white illustrations of bearded men on front, gray spine and back, 255 pges with an extensive bibliography, a library three-line stamp to all three exterior page edgs and to first and last end papers but not on text pages. Good, Considering it is Ex-library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xii, 1 leaf [half-title], 255 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any remainder or library markings. First Edition. ISBN 0300054408.

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hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. includes dust-jacket. near fine dust-jacket, fresh attractive green cloth, appears little used if at all. EFRON, JOHN M. Medicine and the German Jews: a history. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, 1st printing number line ending with 1, viii, 343pp., . CONTENTS: The emergence of the medieval Jewish physician -- Jewish physicians: in and out of the German ghetto -- Haskalah and healing: Jewish medicine in the age of enlightenment -- The Jewish body degenerate? -- The psychopathology of everyday Jewish life -- In praise of Jewish ritual: modern medicine and the defense of ancient traditions -- Before the storm: Jewish doctors in the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic. 9780300083774 ISBN 0300083777 22.70. …

75 S. : Illustr. Orig.-kart. ( Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur ; Jg. 2008, Heft 2).

Hardback. Condition: New. An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry. In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set of codified regulations concerning forbidden and permissible meats, highly prescribed methods of killing, and elaborate rules governing consumption, meat is one of the most visible, and gustatory, markers of Jewish distinctness and social separation. It is an object of tangible, touchable, and tastable difference like no other. In All Consuming, historian John M. Efron focuses on the contested culture of meat and its role in the formation of ethnic identities in Germany. To an extent not seen elsewhere in Europe, Germans have identified, thought about, studied, decried, and gladly eaten meat understood to be "Jewish." Expressions of this engagement are found across the cultural landscape-in literature, sculpture, and visual arts-and evident in legal codes and commercial enterprises. Likewise, Jews in Germany have vigorously defended their meats and the culture and rituals surrounding them by educating Germans and Jews alike about their meaning and relevance. Exploring a cultural history that extends some seven hundred years, from the Middle Ages to today, Efron goes beyond a discussion of dietary laws and ritual slaughter to take a broad view of what meat can tell us about German-Jewish identity and culinary culture, Jewish and Christian religious sensibilities, and religious freedom for minorities in Germany. In so doing, he provides a singular window into the rich, fraught, and ultimately tragic history of German Jewry.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with fading to spine and creasing.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in burnt orange cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xii/255 pages. "By the late nineteenth century physical anthropologists were engaged in debates about the ""Jewish Racial Question "" asking whether there was a biological basis for Jewish distinctiveness and social development. This fascinating book describes for the first time the response of Jewish race scientists to these debates showing that it was influenced by the external threat of antisemitism and the internal need to assert a Jewish ethnic pride.".…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Pages unmarked. Dust jacket glossy. Binding square & firm. Clean & bright. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding, although wrappers are starting to separate at bottom. Pages clean, tanned. Typescript font. Wrappers tanned with handling wear. Contents: Morris, On Etruscan Places. Small, The tale the critic tells: D. H. Lawrence on Nathaniel Hawthorne. Buchen, Decadent sexuality and satire. Krafft, Anarcho-romanticism and the metaphysics of counterforce: Alex Comfort and Thomas Pynchon. Krieger, Re-reading allegory: the clerk's tale. Greenberg, Efron and Morris, On poetry and philosophy: problems in Bostetter's critical method. Wooster and Efron, On Blake's "Streams of Gore": an exchange. Efron, Paunch, Wuthering Heights, and the body. Poetry by various authors. Correspondence. 8.25" (18.5 cm) tall; 172 pages.…