{"product_id":"inventing-the-jew-antisemitic-stereotypes-in-romanian-and-other-central-east-european-cultures-9780803220980","title":"Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures","description":"\u003ci\u003eInventing the Jew\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Armenians, and Greeks. The gap between the conception of the \"imaginary Jew\" and the \"real Jew\" is a cultural distance that differs over time and place, here seen through the lens of cultural anthropology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStereotypes of the \"generic Jew\" were not exclusively negative, and are described in five chapters depicting physical, occupational, moral and intellectual, mythical and magical, and religious portraits of \"the Jew.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrei Oisteanu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803220980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrei 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Image of the Jew in Romanian Culture, Order and Chaos: Myth and Magic in Romanian Traditional Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eReligion, Politics, and Myth: Texts about Mircea Eliade and Ioan Petru Culianu.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40138421207155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8e2d6a39-5d17-40be-89b4-f5d63ada92a4.jpg?v=1654349339","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/inventing-the-jew-antisemitic-stereotypes-in-romanian-and-other-central-east-european-cultures-9780803220980","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}