Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast
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abjection
animal
animal studies
Animality
animalization of women
animalized woman
antisemitic stereotypes
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Beauty and the Beast
becoming-animal
body politics
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critical theory
David Vogel
Devorah Baron
Devorah Baron's feminism
ecofeminist critique
effeminization of Jews
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erotics of power
female embodiment
feminist literary analysis
Gender
gender performativity
gender studies
gendered animality
gendered exile.
gendered otherness
gendered species hierarchy
Hebrew
Hebrew literature
Hebrew modernism
intersections of race and gender
Jew: Jewish
Jewish body discourse
Jewish masculinity
Jewish studies
Jewishness
liminality
literary animality
literary monstrosity
marginalization
masculinity in crisis
Micha Yosef Berdichevsky
Modernist Fiction
nonhuman subjectivity
posthumanism
queer theory in Jewish literature
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
speciesism and sexism
symbolic femininity
Uri Nissan Gnessin
violence and vulnerability
Yosef Haim Brenner
Zionism and gender
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- ISBN 9781978841727
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and therefore parallel. The trope of the womanized Jewish man has been widely recognized as a staple in otherizing portrayals of European Jews, as well as their self-perception. Similarly, ecofeminist critique has addressed the ubiquitous depiction of the animalized woman throughout history. Yet, the interconnection between the effeminization of Jews and the animalization of women has been overlooked.
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically explores the tangled interplay between Jewishness, gender, and animality and its manifestation in modernist Hebrew fiction. Through interdiscursive analysis and close readings, the effeminate Jew is examined vis-À-vis the animalized woman. Intertwining cutting-edge theoretical frameworks of posthumanism and animal studies with established scholarship of Hebrew literature, Jewish studies, and gender studies, Naama Harel offers new Hebrew literary historiography and innovative perspectives on canonical works by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Devorah Baron, Micha Yosef Berdichevsky, Yosef Haim Brenner, Uri Nissan Gnessin, and David Vogel.
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically explores the tangled interplay between Jewishness, gender, and animality and its manifestation in modernist Hebrew fiction. Through interdiscursive analysis and close readings, the effeminate Jew is examined vis-À-vis the animalized woman. Intertwining cutting-edge theoretical frameworks of posthumanism and animal studies with established scholarship of Hebrew literature, Jewish studies, and gender studies, Naama Harel offers new Hebrew literary historiography and innovative perspectives on canonical works by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Devorah Baron, Micha Yosef Berdichevsky, Yosef Haim Brenner, Uri Nissan Gnessin, and David Vogel.
NAAMA HAREL is the co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Human-Animal Studies and faculty at Columbia’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Kafka’s Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier.
