{"product_id":"bestiarium-judaicum-jay-geller-9780823275595","title":"Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiven the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals--pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, \u003ci\u003eBestiarium Judaicum\u003c\/i\u003e asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the nonhuman-animal constructions of primarily Germanophone authors, including Sigmund Freud, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, and Gertrud Kolmar, Jay Geller expands his earlier examinations (\u003ci\u003eOn Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e) of how such writers drew upon representations of Jewish corporeality in order to work through their particular situations in Gentile modernity. From Heine's ironic lizards to Kafka's \u003ci\u003eRed Peter\u003c\/i\u003e and Siodmak's \u003ci\u003eWolf Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBestiarium Judaicum\u003c\/i\u003e brings together Jewish cultural studies and critical animal studies to ferret out these writers' engagement with the bestial answers upon which the Jewish and animal questions converged and by which varieties of the species Jew were identified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Geller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823275590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823275595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d","brand":"Jay Geller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990407315711,"sku":"9780823275595","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8d2be42-686c-4462-93f6-a3452f27f41c.jpg?v=1683304498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bestiarium-judaicum-jay-geller-9780823275595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}