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Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Semites Race Religion Literature - Cultural Memory in the Present
Author: Gil Anidjar
This collection of essays explores the now mostly extinct notion of ?Semites.? Invented in the nineteenth century and essential to the making of modern conceptions of religion and race, the strange unity of Jew and Arab under one term, ?Semite? (the opposing term was ?Aryan?), and the circumstances that brought about its disappearance constitute...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804756945
ISBN-10: 0804756945
Publication Date: 10/8/2007
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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