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Esther Benbassa - The Jew and the Other - 9780801489464 - KHN0001596
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The Jew and the Other

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Description for The Jew and the Other Paperback. Translator(s): Goshgarian, G. M. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 168. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

In the current situation of polarization in the Middle East, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that a long tradition of dialogue and openness toward the "Other" exists in many strands of Jewish thought. Himself or herself the quintessential Other in a world in which she or he has existed dispersed, in exile, as a minority, the Jew has consistently envisioned the self in relation to surrounding societies. Esther Benbassa and Jean-Christophe Attias show that alterity is a useful and morally compelling notion with which to structure Judaism's historically specific and politically charged encounters with deity, femininity, ... Read more

In Benbassa and Attias's view, the Other may be rejected, but it is also a mirror, both reminding the Jew of ethical duties and constituting a source of temptation and danger. Sometimes, the authors find, the Other is the enemy. They note that it is with the enemy that peace is made, peace with the Other and peace with the self. The Jew and the Other, which is an extended commentary on a dozen Biblical verses and which follows the five books of the Pentateuch, offers the history of that encounter as an inextricable part of the Jewish condition and is itself a meditation on this encounter.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489464
SKU
KHN0001596
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Esther Benbassa
Esther Benbassa is Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, and Director of the Alberto Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies and Culture. Among her books translated into English are Haim Nahum: A Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Politics and The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Jean-Christophe Attias is Professor of ... Read more

Reviews for The Jew and the Other
"This is a rich summation of the resources and challenges of Jewish identity and difference at the turn of the third Christian millennium. Committed, lucid, critical, and informed, it exemplifies a vibrantly human science of Jewishness."
Jonathan Boyarin, author of Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory and Thinking in Jewish

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