Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to Modernity witchy Martha is enlisted to search

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a robust Jewish folk religion flourished—ideas and practices that never met with wholehearted approval by religious leaders yet enjoyed such wide popularity that they could not be altogether excluded from the religion

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Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to Modernity witchy Martha is enlisted to searchThis is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were