{"product_id":"semites-gil-anidjar-9780804756952","title":"Semites: Race, Religion, Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays explores the now mostly extinct notion of \"Semites.\" Invented in the nineteenth century and essential to the making of modern conceptions of religion and race, the strange unity of Jew and Arab under one term, \"Semite\" (the opposing term was \"Aryan\"), and the circumstances that brought about its disappearance constitute the subject of this volume. With a focus on the history of disciplines (including religious studies and Jewish studies), as well as on lingering political, theological, and cultural effects (secularism, anti-Semitism, Israel\/Palestine), \u003ci\u003eSemites: Race, Religion, and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e turns to the literary imagination as the site of a fragile and tenuous alternative, the promise of something like a \"Semitic perspective.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gil Anidjar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804756953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804756952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.55h x 5.62w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 79","brand":"Gil Anidjar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926226043135,"sku":"9780804756952","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d9387c71-c904-4e9c-a48f-550c6c0327bc.jpg?v=1681081898","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/semites-gil-anidjar-9780804756952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}