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The stranger in early modern and modern Jewish tradition / edited by Catherine Bartlett and Joachim Schlör

Bartlett, Catherine, 1967- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Schlör, Joachim, 1960- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

XII, 291 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: The stranger in early modern and modern Jewish tradition (Online-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-43545-2 (hardback)

978-90-04-43546-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021014023

OCoLC: 1262631625     

BM720.N6

296.3/8     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 11.29 (Judentum: Sonstiges) <Religionswissenschaft>

SSG-Nummer(n): 1; 0

*Judentum ; Fremder <Motiv> ; Geschichte 1500- ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Other (Philosophy) -- Religious aspects ; Strangers -- Religious aspects -- Judaism

"Angels are the ultimate stranger. They come from another world and have a special place in the art of the Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985). In My Life (1923) the young Chagall recalls one memorable night in Saint-Petersburg. Drifting into sleep in the corner of a room (all he could afford) he suddenly saw the ceiling open and a winged being, surrounded by light and blue air, hovered above him before disappearing through the ceiling again"--