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29%OFFElliott Horowitz - Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence - 9780691138244 - V9780691138244
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Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence

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Description for Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence Paperback. Historical accounts of Jewish violence - particularly against Christians - have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. This book looks at both the history of Jewish violence since late antiquity and the ways in which generations of historians have grappled with that history. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 360 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HRJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Historical accounts of Jewish violence--particularly against Christians--have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. Others have discounted, dismissed, or simply ignored the evidence, often for apologetic purposes. In Reckless Rites, Elliott Horowitz takes a new and forthright look at both the history of Jewish violence since late antiquity and the ways in which generations of historians have grappled with that history. In the process, he has written the most wide-ranging book on Jewish violence in any language, and the first to fully acknowledge and address the actual anti-Christian practices that became part of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691138244
SKU
V9780691138244
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About Elliott Horowitz
Elliott Horowitz, a native of New York City, is Associate Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is coeditor of the "Jewish Quarterly Review".

Reviews for Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 Runner-Up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in History "[A] dazzlingly erudite study of the many ramifications of the Purim odyssey from medieval times to our days. Horowitz's ambitious book achieves two accomplishments: the documentation of 1,500 years of Christian and Jewish interpretations of the knottiest, and naughtiest, sections of the ... Read more

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