The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians and the Pig (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians and the Pig (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) Book

The Singular Beast is an academic study of the relationship between pigs and Jews in European Christian culture. It is a challenging book, but it's well worth the trouble for readers who want to understand the shape of traditional Christian anti-Semitism. "We know that the world's cultures readily designate others by what they eat; in Europe we call one another frogs, roast beefs, or macaroni eaters," Claudine Fabre-Vassas writes. "A very rare exception should have aroused suspicion: Jews are called 'pigs,' imagined to be bloodthirsty, identified precisely as what they forbid themselves." When Fabre-Vassas digs into this paradox, she discovers all kinds of interesting and awful myths. Suffice it to say, Christian readers will think twice about putting ham in the oven next Easter.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Throughout history, the slaughter and consumption of the pig has been the inspiration for role-playing and taboos, and at the center of practices that defined the boundaries between Christians and Jews. A provocative exploration of the pig in European culture and anti-Semitism, The Singular Beast chronicles the cultural and religious character of the pig -and details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans and the rituals that have been associated with it from the Middle Ages to today.

  • 0231103670
  • 9780231103671
  • C Fabre-Vassas
  • 5 October 1999
  • Columbia University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • New Ed
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