Abraham Melamed

The evolving image of the Black in the history of Jewish culture is being traced here in the conceptual framework of recent post-modern theories of the 'other'. The study focuses on the mechanisms by which an ethno-religious minority group considered by the dominant majority to be the inferior 'other' identifies its own inferior other. While until recently most scholarly attention has been devoted to the attitudes towards the Jews as 'other', this is the first comprehensive discussion of the attitudes of the Jews to their own 'others'.

A History of the Other

The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture

Ilana Zinguer

Zur Shalev

This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.

Sources and Encounters

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Illustrates Plato’s theory of the philosopher-king in the context of medieval and Renaissance Jewish thought.

Abraham Melamed

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