Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843–1933, Robin Judd (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), xiv + 283 pp., cloth 45.00
Robin Judd's study of circumcision and kosher butchering in Germany prior to the Nazi seizure of power is an attempt at what Michael André Bernstein calls “sideshadowing” (p. 18). It offers an alternative to the “apocalyptic” or “backshadowing” histories of German Jewry, decried by Bernstein, t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 529-531 |
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| Summary: | Robin Judd's study of circumcision and kosher butchering in Germany prior to the Nazi seizure of power is an attempt at what Michael André Bernstein calls “sideshadowing” (p. 18). It offers an alternative to the “apocalyptic” or “backshadowing” histories of German Jewry, decried by Bernstein, that plot the trajectory of that community's life during the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries as ineluctably headed along a well-marked—for those who had eyes to see—path to the ovens.1 Instead, she outlines for her readers a series of local, regional, and national confrontations between various constellations of forces whose interests and motivations are not simply determined by the labels Jew or Gentile, antisemite or liberal, rabbi or judge. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn049 |