{"product_id":"difference-of-a-different-kind-iris-idelson-shein-9780812246094","title":"Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eEuropean Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein, occupied a particular place in the development of modern racial discourse during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Simultaneously inhabitants and outsiders in Europe, considered both foreign and familiar, Jews adopted a complex perspective on otherness and race. Often themselves the objects of anthropological scrutiny, they internalized, adapted, and revised the emerging discourse of racial difference to meet their own ends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDifference of a Different Kind\u003c\/i\u003e explores Jewish perceptions and representations of otherness during the formative period in the history of racial thought. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including philosophical and scientific works, halakhic literature, and folktales, Idelson-Shein unfolds the myriad ways in which eighteenth-century Jews imagined the \"exotic Other\" and how the evolving discourse of racial difference played into the construction of their own identities. \u003ci\u003eDifference of a Different Kind\u003c\/i\u003e offers an invaluable view into the ways new religious, cultural, and racial identities were imagined and formed at the outset of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Iris Idelson-Shein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812246098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812246094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.39w x 1.09d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2014 pg. 121","brand":"Iris Idelson-Shein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49148195700991,"sku":"9780812246094","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/difference-of-a-different-kind-iris-idelson-shein-9780812246094","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}