The Footsteps of Israel

Scheil, Andrew

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“…Even so, Jews were, as Sylvia Tomasch (2010: 252) says, a "virtual" presence in England throughout the Middle Ages. Andrew Scheil (2004) traces their literary presence, despite their physical absence, in Anglo-Saxon England, and such well-known works as Chaucer's Prioress's Tale and the Siege of Jerusalem attest to their virtual presence later on. But again, these are works about rather than by Jews.…”

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Loading Jewry into the Medieval Canon

Steinberg¹

2013

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In the 1960s, when I attended college, semesters were much like those in the public schools, which meant that our semesters were approximately four weeks longer than college semesters are now. If we multiply those four weeks by the eight semesters of a once-traditional college career, we come up with thirty-two weeks, or another year of classes. To make the point more simply, in my four years of college, I attended classes the equivalent of five current academic years. That diminution of class time would be fine had we discovered that there is actually less to learn, but my distinct impression is that such is not the case. Not only has knowledge exploded in traditional fields, but also new fields and studies in neglected fields have proliferated. In a rational world, the college year would have expanded, not contracted.Among the fields that have developed during the past forty years is Jewish studies. More than one hundred programs in Jewish studies now exist in the United States alone. While such programs, like corresponding programs in women's studies, Latino/Latina studies, or African American studies, are certainly welcome, they also entail a particular danger, the threat of ghettoization. After all, if a university offers a women's studies program, people might think that the program takes care of women's issues at the university. Such, however, is not the case -while those distinct programs are essential, equally essential is the integration of their concerns into the general curriculum.

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Loading Jewry into the Medieval Canon

Steinberg¹

2013

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The Formation of a Persecuting Society

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Lampert‐Weissig

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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Jews, who lived as vulnerable minorities in Europe and experienced episodes of persecution and violence throughout the Middle Ages, were nevertheless predominantly represented in medieval Christian culture as the perpetrators of violence against Christ and against innocent Christians. In the case of medieval Britain, these representations endured and even intensified after the Expulsion of Anglo‐Jewry in 1290.

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The Footsteps of Israel

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