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Evreĭ telesnyĭ / Melvin Konner ; perevod s angliĭskogo E. Levina.

Title
Evreĭ telesnyĭ / Melvin Konner ; perevod s angliĭskogo E. Levina.
Author
Konner, Melvin.
Publication
Moskva : Tekst ; Knizhniki, 2012.

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Additional Authors
Levin, E.
Description
347 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
"Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the "Jewish body," considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers - Jewish genes. But this is not only a book that examines the human body through the prism of Jewish culture. Konner looks as well at the views of Jewish physiology held by non-Jews, and the way those views seeped into Jewish thought. He describes in detail the origins of the first nose job, and he writes about the Nazi ideology that categorized Jews as a public health menace on par with rats or germs." "A work of grand historical and philosophical sweep, The Jewish Body discusses the subtle relationship between the Jewish conception of the physical body and the Jewish conception of a bodiless God. It is a book about the relationship between a land - Israel - and the bodily sense not merely of individuals but of a people. As Konner describes, a renewed focus on the value of physical strength helped generate the creation of a Jewish homeland, and continued in the wake of it." "In this text, Konner gives us nothing less than an anatomical history of the Jewish people."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Cheĭsovskai͡a kollekt͡sii͡a
Uniform Title
  • Jewish body. Russian
  • Cheĭsovskai︠a︡ kollekt︠s︡ii︠a︡.
Alternative Title
Jewish body.
Subject
  • Human body > Social aspects
  • Human body in literature
  • Human body > Religious aspects > Judaism
  • Body image > Social aspects
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology)
  • Jews > Identity
  • Human body in rabbinical literature
  • Human body in the Bible
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9785751610111
  • 5751610113
  • 9785995301615
  • 5995301616
OCLC
  • 805151518
  • SCSB-12343738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library