Jewish Blood - Hart, Mitchell (ed.)
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Deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, this book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its role in Jewish identity, ritual and culture.
This book provides a multidisciplinary examination of the age old issue of Jewish blood in all its various manifestations, both real and imagined. It provides historical, religious and cultural examples ranging from the "Blood Libel" through to the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg.…mehr

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Deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, this book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its role in Jewish identity, ritual and culture.
This book provides a multidisciplinary examination of the age old issue of Jewish blood in all its various manifestations, both real and imagined. It provides historical, religious and cultural examples ranging from the "Blood Libel" through to the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg.
Autorenporträt
Mitchell B. Hart is an associate professor of Jewish history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is the author of The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine (2007) and Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (2000). He is currently at work on a reader about Jews and race.