false 5955277 1 <b>A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.<br></b><br>Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book that examines the human body through the prism of Jewish culture. Konner looks as well at the views of Jewish physiology held by non-Jews, and the way those views seeped into Jewish thought. He describes in detail the origins of the first nose job, and he writes about the Nazi ideology that categorized Jews as a public health menace on par with rats or germs. <br><br>A work of grand historical and philosophical sweep, <i>The Jewish Body </i>discusses the subtle relationship between the Jewish conception of the physical body and the Jewish conception of a bodiless God. It is a book about the relationship between a land–Israel–and the bodily sense not merely of individuals but of a people. As Konner describes, a renewed focus on the value of physical strength helped generate the creation of a Jewish homeland, and continued in the wake of it. <br><br>With deep insight and great originality, Konner gives us nothing less than an anatomical history of the Jewish people. 6127932 13 1 2009 The Jewish Body (Jewish Encounters) total:3|5:1|3:1|2:1| 3 10 18 0 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 15:23:58 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 15:23:58 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 24 04:17:53 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 04:17:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 09:10:51 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 09:10:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 01:16:42 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 01:16:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 03 16:16:36 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 16:16:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Aug 30 20:20:29 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 20:20:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 25 11:50:44 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 11:50:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 21 08:20:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 08:20:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 05 16:39:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:39:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 25 09:02:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 09:02:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 16 06:50:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 06:50:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 18:49:49 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 18:49:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Apr 05 14:13:07 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 14:13:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Mar 24 20:50:54 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 20:50:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 20 17:32:42 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 17:32:42 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Mar 14 13:16:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 25 13:07:51 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 13:16:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 06 05:52:54 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 05:52:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Dec 11 08:08:21 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 08:08:24 -0800 2008