The Jew's body / Sander Gilman.

"Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misc...

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Main Author: Gilman, Sander L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Jewish voice : chicken soup, or the penalties of sounding too Jewish
  • The Jewish foot : a foot-note to the Jewish body
  • The Jewish psyche : Freud, Dora, and the idea of the hysteric
  • The Jewish murderer : Jack the Ripper, race, and gender
  • The Jewish genius : Freud and the Jewishness of the creative
  • The Jewish reader : Freud reads Heine reads Freud
  • The Jewish nose : are Jews white?, or, The history of the nose job
  • The Jewish essence : anti-Semitism and the body in psychoanalysis
  • The Jewish disease : plague in Germany, 1939/1989
  • Too black Jews and too white Blacks.