1st Edition
Jewish Blood Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture
1. "Jewish Blood": An Introduction Mitchell B. Hart 2. Blood and Belief: An Introduction to a Jewish Symbol David Biale 3. We Have Never Been Jewish: An Essay in Asymmetric Hematology Gil Anidjar 4. "By the Blood That You Shed You are Guilty": Perspectives on Female Blood in Leviticus and Ezekiel Elizabeth W. Goldstein 5. The Topography of Blood in 'Mishnah Yoma' Michael D. Swartz 6. God Will See the Blood: Sin, Punishment, and Atonement in the Jewish-Christian Discourse Israel J. Yuval 7. Pharaoh’s Bloodbath: Medieval European Jewish Thoughts about Leprosy, Disease, and Blood Therapy Ephraim Shoham-Steiner 8. The Blood Libel in Solomon ibn Verga’s 'Shevet Yehudah' Jeremy Cohen 9. The Symbolic Power of Blood-Letting: Bernard Picart’s 'La Circoncision des Juifs Portugais' Hilit Surowitz 10. Blood and Myth in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig Hagai Dagan 11. "Man’s Red Soup": Blood and the Art of Esau in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg Neta Stahl 12. The "Blood Motif" in the Struggle for Political Recognition: Zionist "Dissidents" Contest Exclusion Udi Lebel 13. 'Mezizah': the Controversy Over the Manner of Dealing with Circumcision Blood Among Contemporary Orthodox Jews Ira Robinson
Biography
Mitchell B. Hart is an associate professor of Jewish history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is the author of The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine (2007) and Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (2000). He is currently at work on a reader about Jews and race.
'The varied subjects of the different essays amply ful!ll Hart’s promise to describe how blood functions culturally for Jews. The essays are almost all of high quality and well worth reading. It is especially helpful to have essays addressing ritual practices (Biale, Swartz, Surowitz, Robinson) together with those offering an emphasis on textual themes.' - James W. Watts, Syracuse University (USA); RELIGION, volume 41, issue 1 (March 2011)
