"Inventing the Jew" follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews
from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East
European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols,
anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that
of "high" cultures (including literature, essays, journalism, and
sociopolitical writings), showing how motifs specific to "folkloric
antisemitism" migrated to "intellectual antisemitism." This
comparative perspective also highlights how the images of Jews have
differed from that of other "strangers" such as Hungarians,
Germans, Roma, Turks, Armenians, and Greeks. The gap between the
conception of the "imaginary Jew" and the "real Jew" is a cultural
distance that differs over time and place, here seen through the
lens of cultural anthropology.
Stereotypes of the "generic Jew" were not exclusively negative,
and are described in five chapters depicting physical,
occupational, moral and intellectual, mythical and magical, and
religious portraits of "the Jew."
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