By Leonard Greenspoon
This quantity offers papers brought on the twenty fourth Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, held at Creighton collage in October 2011. The individuals examine all elements of the intimate courting among Jews and garments, via case reports from historical, medieval, fresh, and modern background. Papers discover issues starting from Jewish management within the cloth undefined, during the artwork of favor in Read more...
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Roth, “Distinguishing Jewishness in Antiquity,” in A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World: Essays in Honor of William V. Harris (ed. Jean-Jacques Aubert, Zsuzsanna Várhelyi; Berlin: DeGruyters, 2005), 54. 9 See Shaye J. D. Cohen, The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 28–30, who discusses the lack of an explicitly Jewish physiognomy in antiquity. 10 Frederik Poulsen, Katalog over antike skulpturer, op.
43 Reduced clarity in the written documents was the price to pay for a sign more visible and easier to enforce. While the hat solved the problem of the conspicuousness of the distinctive sign, confusing descriptions replaced the iconic and unique qualities of the O in the text. Given the tenacity with which the various Italian governments had held on to the O for a century, it is ironic that it was precisely its iconic qualities that they replaced, but this irony probably follows from the dynamic and inverted relation between the textual representations of the Jewish signs and their physical manifestations.
Roman Portrait erroneously identified as Josephus. Courtesy of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 19 20 Fashioning Jews: Clothing, Culture, and Commerce downplay physiognomic distinctiveness of European populations—and particularly of Jews. 12 This logic assumes that if Chasidim today, for example, dress distinctively, then Jews in antiquity certainly must have done the same. This is not just an “outsiders’” instinct. Contemporary pedagogic materials used in fervently Orthodox schools portray the biblical characters and the rabbis dressed as contemporary haredim.