{"product_id":"the-jew-the-beauty-and-the-beast-gender-and-animality-in-modernist-hebrew-fiction-9781978841727","title":"The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction","description":"Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the \"civilized,\" and therefore parallel. The trope of the womanized Jewish man has been widely recognized as a staple in otherizing portrayals of European Jews, as well as their self-perception. Similarly, ecofeminist critique has addressed the ubiquitous depiction of the animalized woman throughout history. Yet, the interconnection between the effeminization of Jews and the animalization of women has been overlooked. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast\u003c\/i\u003e critically explores the tangled interplay between Jewishness, gender, and animality and its manifestation in modernist Hebrew fiction. Through interdiscursive analysis and close readings, the effeminate Jew is examined vis-à-vis the animalized woman. Intertwining cutting-edge theoretical frameworks of posthumanism and animal studies with established scholarship of Hebrew literature, Jewish studies, and gender studies, Naama Harel offers new Hebrew literary historiography and innovative perspectives on canonical works by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Devorah Baron, Micha Yosef Berdichevsky, Yosef Haim Brenner, Uri Nissan Gnessin, and David Vogel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAAMA HAREL \u003cb\u003eis the director of the Hebrew Program at Columbia University and the cochair of Columbia University Seminar on Human-Animal Studies. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eKafka's Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51830487154962,"sku":"9781978841727","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0915b1b7-cacf-413c-9eeb-ff77e5682756.jpg?v=1767004289","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-jew-the-beauty-and-the-beast-gender-and-animality-in-modernist-hebrew-fiction-9781978841727","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}