{"product_id":"polin-elissa-bemporad-9781802070385","title":"Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 38: Gender and the Body in Eastern European Jewish History","description":"\u003cp\u003eJewish attitudes to the body, gender, and sexuality are traditionally influenced by religious considerations. Explorations in this volume extend to how communal and state-related concerns have intersected with the personal--in care for the elderly, birth control, white slavery, and burial, as well as in the recent entanglement of antisemitism and misogyny. Holocaust-related topics include gender-dependent perceptions of warfare; gender and pogrom violence; how impersonating diverse identities became a matter of survival; how the plunder of Jewish clothes engaged the bodies of both victims and bystanders; and how mass graves perpetuated a Jewish presence after the genocide. Other studies include how the Jewish body has been construed in fiction, ego-documents, and (queer) poetry, and how Jewish youth thought about sport. The volume concludes with four reflections on the embodied self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elissa Bemporad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802070389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802070385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Littman Library of Jewish Civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Elissa Bemporad","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965694591231,"sku":"9781802070385","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_634b5fac-e341-443f-95ca-22266afe9e06.jpg?v=1767284178","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/polin-elissa-bemporad-9781802070385","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}