Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
People of the Body
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1992) 233-241
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Body image
;
Jews Identity
Abstract:
Discussing the perception of the "Jewish body" in the ideology of modern antisemitism, focuses on the alleged specificity of the Jewish foot - its pathophysiological representation and meaning in the general and medical culture of the late 19th century, especially in Germany and Austria. Remarks on the insertion of the old demoniacal attributes of the Jew in the "scientific" theories on the nature of the Jew's foot. It became a congenital stigma of the Jew, who was considered unable to integrate in society. The debate over the Jewish "flat foot" became a barrier in the promotion of Jews in the German and Austrian armies. The issue entered also into the sphere of neurology, linking the nature of the Jewish body and the Jewish psyche.
Note:
On critiques of the Jewish physique in the 19th-early 20th centuries.
,
Another version appeared in the "Bulletin of the History of Medicine" 64 (1990), and as "The Jewish foot; a foot note to the Jewish body" in "Feminism and the Body" (2000) 355-375. Appeared in German as "Der jüdische Körper; eine Fuss-Note" in his "Rasse, Sexualität und Seuche" (1992) 181-204.
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