title: Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 18801940 (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought)
author: Mitchell B. Hart
description: Tablet"<br /><br />H-JUDAIC"<br /><br />Published as part of Brandeis exciting new Library of Modern Jewish Thought, Jews and Race is fascinating and challenging reading. <i><b>Tablet</b></i>"<br /><br />As editor Mitchell B. Hart aptly demonstrates in this fascinating new primary source reader, there is much for students of Jewish intellectual, social, cultural, and even political history to learn from reading this literature. . . . Designed for course adoption, the collection as a whole raises fundamental questions about the origin, the meaning, and the legacy of these ideas themselves, as well as about the historical context(s) in which they were articulated, which was clearly transnational. . . . What is most exciting about this new reader is that it allows students to examine the sources themselves, seeing firsthand how modern Jews engaged this potent discourse. <i><b>H-JUDAIC</b></i>"<br /><br />"Published as part of Brandeis' exciting new Library of Modern Jewish Thought, Jews and Race is fascinating and challenging reading."-- "Tablet"<br /><br />"As editor Mitchell B. Hart aptly demonstrates in this fascinating new primary source reader, there is much for students of Jewish intellectual, social, cultural, and even political history to learn from reading this literature. . . . Designed for course adoption, the collection as a whole raises fundamental questions about the origin, the meaning, and the legacy of these ideas themselves, as well as about the historical context(s) in which they were articulated, which was clearly transnational. . . . What is most exciting about this new reader is that it allows students to examine the sources themselves, seeing firsthand how modern Jews engaged this potent discourse."-- "H-JUDAIC"
zlib_text: The Jewish Body in Black and White in
  Medieval and Early Modern England
  M. LINDSAY KAPLAN
  W
  HAT COLOR ARE JEWS? It should be obvious by now that Jews
  come in all colors and ethnicities. Since anyone can convert
  to Judaism, and since Jews live in communities around the
  world, a wide range of Jewish appearances exists. However, this fact does
  not preclude debates both within the Jewish community and in the larger
  society over the question of Jewish color. While some assume that Jews are
  "white," ignoring numerous Jewish communities of color, others argue that
  antisemitism renders Jews "black," or at least non-white, even though many
  Jews enjoy the benefits of white privilege.' I begin with these contemporary
  questions in order to argue that they have a long history, one that emerges
  in medieval discourses on and visual representations of variously colored
  Jews. In this essay I examine a range of medieval theological and humoral
  texts that posit Jewish blackness, but also, paradoxically, 