Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to Modernity

Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nList of Contributors\nAcknowledgments\nNote on Transliterations\nIntroduction: Writing a History of Horror, or What Happens When Monsters Stare Back\n	Notes\nPart One: The Monster Without: Monsters in Jewish-Christian Intercultural Discourse\n	Chapter 1: Enge unpathas uncuð gelad: The Long Walk to Freedom\n		Entas wæron eac swylce ofer eorðan on ðam dagum [Giants were over the earth in those days.]\n		Enge unpaðas, uncuð gelad [Narrow path, unknown way]\n		swa hwylcne man swa hy gelæccað þonne fretað hi hyne45 [Certainly, any person they catch, they eat.]\n		Hreopon mearcweardas middum nihtum  [The borderlands’ people cried out in the middle of the night]77\n		Notes\n	Chapter 2: Monsters, Demons, and Jews in the Painting of Hieronymus Bosch\n		Notes\n	Chapter 3: Bestial Bodies on the Jewish Margins: Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness in Medieval Manuscripts Illuminated for Jews\n		Notes\n	Chapter 4: Demonic Entanglements: Matted Hair in Medieval and Early Modern, Western, and Eastern Ashkenaz\n		Notes\n	Chapter 5: A Jewish Frankenstein: Making Monsters in Modernist German Grotesques\n		The Operated Jew\n		The Operated Goy\n		Monstrous Endings\n		Notes\n	Chapter 6: From Sexual Enlightenment to Racial Antisemitism: Gender, Sex, and Jewishness in Weimar Cinema’s Monsters\n		Weimar Film and the Monster\n		Early German Film, Sexology, and the Jews\n		Sexual Enlightenment: Different from the Others and Girls in Uniform\n		Race and Sexual Ambiguity: Fritz Lang’s M\n		Racializing Queerness: Friedrich Murnau’s Nosferatu and Tabu versus Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr\n		Notes\n	Chapter 7: Monsters in the Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors\n		Unmask\n		Unreal\n		Discovery\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\nPart Two: The Monster Within: Monsters in Jewish Intracommunal Discourse\n	Chapter 8: Unearthing the “Children of Cain”: Between Humans, Animals, and Demons in Medieval Jewish Culture\n		“Jewish Geography” in Seder rabbah de-Bereshit\n		Demonizing Tevel\n		Humanizing Tevel\n		Tevel and the Antipodes\n		Notes\n	Chapter 9: Sexuality and Communal Space in Stories about the Marriage of Men and She-Demons\n		Jewish Versions of the Theme\n		Early Modern Old-Yiddish Narratives\n		Concretizations of Time and Place and their Meanings\n		Human and Demonic Figures\n		Sexual Descriptions and Halakhic Discourse\n		Demonic Marriage and Communal Identities\n		Notes\n	Chapter 10: The Raging Rabbi: Aggression and Agency in an Early Modern Yiddish Werewolf Tale (Mayse-bukh 1602)\n		Medieval Werewolf Tales\n		The Werewolf Tale in the Mayse-bukh\n		Misogyny and Male Bonding\n		Autonomy and Violence\n		Notes\n	Chapter 11: Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings\n		Notes\n	Chapter 12: Rabbinic Monsters: The World of Wonder and Rabbinic Culture at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century\n		Notes\n	Chapter 13: “Der Volf” or The Jew as Out(side of the)law\n		Jewish Werewolves and Other Outlaws\n		Leivick’s yidishe agodes\n		Oy: From Killing (retsakh) to Slaughter (shekhitah)\n		From Slaughter (shechitah) to Killing (retsakh)\n		Notes\n	Select Bibliography\n	Index