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This text explores the ways Jews have defined other groups and themselves. Topics include: the construction of gender, the gentile as Other, the Palestinian as Other, blacks as Other in American Jewish literature, the Jewish body image as symbol of Otherness, and women as Other in Israeli cinema.

Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in deep-rooted traditions of inclusion and exclusion that permeate the culture's literature, religion, and politics. This volume explores the ways in which Jews have traditionally defined other groups and, in turn, themselves. The contributors, a distinguis...