ABSTRACT
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going strategy of image management - the urge to shape, direct, authorize and contain Jewish literary and material images and encounters with those images - a strategy both consciously and unconsciously undertaken within multifarious arenas of Jewish life from early modern German lands to late twentieth-century North London, late Antique Byzantium to the curation of contemporary Holocaust exhibitions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I: Divinity, Divine Actions and Their Interpretation: The Management of Theological Images
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Part II: Contested Images of Judaism and Jewishness: Jewish Perspectives on Identity and Image Management
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Part III: Interaction and Conflict with the ‘Other’: The Management of Images in Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations
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Part IV: Communication and Representation: The Management of Jewish Images in Cultural Media