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Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe - Ivan G. Marcus - Hardcover
by Marcus, Ivan G.
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- ISBN-13: 9780300059984
- ISBN: 0300059981
- Publisher: Yale University Press
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In the novel interpretation of the of the initiation rite of Jewish boys beginning their religious schooling, Ivan G. Marcus presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe. Marcus shows how Jews polemically transformed Christian religious symbols into Jewish counterimages to affirm the truth of Judaism and make sense of living in all intensely Christian culture.Marcus, Ivan G. is the author of 'Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe - Ivan G. Marcus - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780300059984 and ISBN 0300059981.
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