Going West : migrating personae and construction of the self in rabbinic culture /

Going West : migrating personae and construction of the self in rabbinic culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kipervasser, Reuven, author.
Imprint:	Providence, Rhode Island : Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University, [2021] ©2021
Description:	xiv, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Brown Judaic Studies ; number 369 Brown Judaic studies ; no. 369.
Subject:	Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism. Forced migration in rabbinical literature. Restoration of the Jews in rabbinical literature. Forced migration in rabbinical literature. Rabbinical literature. Restoration of the Jews in rabbinical literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12734394

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ISBN:	1951498895 9781951498894 1951498887 9781951498887
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and indexes.
Summary:	"This new book by Reuven Kiperwasser examines the social, cultural, and religious aspects of third- to sixth-century narratives involving rabbinic figures migrating between Babylonia and Palestine. Kiperwasser draws on migration and mobility studies, comparative literature, humor and satire studies, as well as social history to reveal how border-crossing rabbis were seen as exporting features of their previous eastern context into their new western homes and vice versa. Through their writing, rabbinic authors articulated the nature and legitimacy of their own scholastic practices, knowledge, and authority in relationship to their internal others."--

Table of Contents:

Symbolic Violence
Mocking Babylonians
Going West
Hosting Babylonians
The Appointment of Babylonians
"He is one of them!": Showing the Other His Place
Going West but Remaining at Home
Going East
Epilogue: Going Back and Forth