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Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism.
Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.
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Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History
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Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History
From the Middle Ages to Modernity
Edited by
Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese
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We would like to thank the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Gerda Henkel Foundation for their generous support of this project. At Goethe University we are also grateful to the Stiftung zur Frderung international Beziehungen , and the Vereinigung von Freunden und Frderern der Goethe-Universitt .
Our profound thanks to the contributors of this volume for joining us on this adventure, and for making it an exceptionally exciting and rewarding one. It has been an honor and a pleasure working with you all. Warm thanks also to the participants of the international conference on Monsters, Demons and Wonders in Jewish History , hosted by the Martin-Buber-Chair for Jewish Religious Philosophy in 2016.
We are grateful to Bloomsbury Publishing for their faith in this project, and particularly to Beatriz Lopez and Rhodri Mogford for shepherding the book through the various stages of publication.
Iris Idelson-Shein:
As always, I am deeply indebted to David B. Ruderman and Shulamit Volkov for their guidance, invaluable advice, and unwavering support. Warm thanks also to Amir Engel, Mark Shein-Idelson, and Rebekka Vo for their insight and inspiration throughout the various stages of this project, and to Abraham Rubin and Gilad Shenhav for their comments on the introduction.
The final stages of preparing this book were conducted during a research stay at the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University. I am indebted to the Institute, and particularly to its director, Scott Uri for his encouragement and support.
Finally, it is my distinct pleasure to thank my coeditor Christian Wiese, for his enthusiasm for this project, his wise counsel, and his unparalleled kindness.
Christian Wiese:
This book owes its publication to the inspiration, energy, and scholarly rigor of my coeditor, Iris Idelson-Shein, who brought an excellent group of scholars together for an exciting conference and convinced them to contribute to what has become a pioneering volume. Thanking her for her tireless work on this volume gives me the opportunity to also express my profound gratitude for her wonderful contribution to the intellectual atmosphere at the Martin-Buber-Chair for Jewish Religious Philosophy during the five years of her postdoctoral activities at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Moses and Zipporah face the Grendel-kin [or Noah and his Family (Gen. 56) there also were giants on the earth in those days (Gen. 6)], Old English Hexateuch. London, British Library MS, Cotton Claudius B.iv, fol. Fol. 12v13r. The British Library Board. |
The Wandering Israelites See the Grendel-kin [or The Spies of Israel See the Sons of Anak (Num. 13)], London, British Library MS Cotton Claudius B.iv, fol. 118. The British Library Board. |
Moyses and his Troops Meet Grendels Mother [or Hostes and Lertice, Wonders of the East ], London, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xv. The British Library Board. |
The Wandering Israelites in a Land of Monsters, Hereford World Map. The Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral and the Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust. |
Hieronymus Bosch, Adoration of the Magi , central panel, Prado Epiphany triptych. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.Photo: The Bridgeman Art Library. |
Hieronymus Bosch, Adoration of the Magi , central panel (detail), Prado Epiphany triptych. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.Photo: The Bridgeman Art Library. |
Hieronymus Bosch, Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns).Photo The National Gallery, London. |
Hieronymus Bosch and workshop, gryllus, The Last Judgment triptych, central panel (detail), Akademie der bildenden Knste, Vienna.Photo: The Bridgeman Art Library. |
Hieronymus Bosch, Saint John on Patmos . Berlin.Photo: bpk-Bildagentur / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemldegalerie, Berlin. |
Hieronymus Bosch, hybrid monster, Saint John on Patmos (detail). bpk-Bildagentur / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemldegalerie, Berlin. |
Hans Memling, Saint John on Patmos . Sint-Janshospitaal, Memlingmuseum, Bruges.Musea Brugge www.lukasweb.beArt in Frlanders vzw, photo Hugo Maertens. |
Circle of Dirk Bouts, Saint John Writing his Gospel . Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.Photo: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam / photographer: Studio Tromp, Rotterdam. |
Christ Carrying the Cross , stained glass panel. Cologne, late fifteenth century, Glasgow Museums, Burrell Collection. CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections. |
Manticore, Rochester Bestiary. England, thirteenth century. London, British Library, MS Royal 12.C XIX, fol. 29v (detail).Photo British Library Board. |
Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Miser .Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. |
Hieronymus Bosch, hybrid monster, Death and the Miser (detail).Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. |
Locusts, Blockbook Apocalypse. Netherlands or Germany, mid-1460s, impression c. 146670. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 249, fol. 35 / plate g2 (detail).Photo: The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. |
Hieronymus Bosch, Passion Scenes (reverse of Saint John on Patmos panel).Photo: bpk-Bildagentur / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemldegalerie, Berlin. |
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights , central panel (detail). Museo Nacional de Prado, Madrid.Photo: The Bridgeman Art Library. |
Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of Saint Anthony triptych, central panel (detail). Museu Nacional de Arte Antigua, Lisbon. |
London, British Library. Add. MS. 15282, Lake Constance Region, c. 1300, fol. 179v. Photo British Library Board. |
London, British Library. Add. MS. 15282, Lake Constance Region, c. 1300, fol. 179v. Photo British Library Board. Details. |
London, British Library. Add. MS. 15282, Lake Constance Region, c. 1300, fol. 179v. Photo British Library Board. Details. |
Undated and anonymous amulet, probably Eastern European, eighteenth century, from untitled treatise on practical kabbalah. Bodleian Library. See pos. 1965/1 Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the college libraries of Oxford (Oxford 1886). |
Sassonia, De plica quam Poloni Gwozdziec, Roxolani Koltunum vocant (Padua 1600). Wellcome Collection. |
Sassonia, De plica . Epigram referring to a new condition in Poland. Wellcome Collection. |
Nosferatu directed by Friedrich Murnau Universum Film 2014. |
Mdchen in Uniform directed by Leontine Sagan Kinowelt Home Entertainment 2008. |
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