03507nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001700167072002300184072001500207100007800222245016400300250001800464264008500482300006800567336002600635337002600661338003600687347002400723505054000747520116501287650002102452650001902473650002302492650002502515650002202540650002202562650005302584650002502637650002902662650002002691700008802711710003402799773002602833776003602859776003602895776003602931856004602967978-3-031-46069-2DE-He21320251030112904.0cr nn 008mamaa240822s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314606927 a10.1007/978-3-031-46069-22doi 4aD900-2027 7aHBJD2bicssc 7aHIS0100002bisacsh 7aNHD2thema1 aNissan, Ephraim.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aBesmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outsideh[electronic resource] :bCounter-history or Its Parody /cby Ephraim Nissan, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXXVIII, 378 p. 85 illus., 38 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aPart I Antiquity to the Middle Ages: An Iranic Locale, Outside Views -- 1. Mazdak, Mazdakism, and the Mazdakite Parenthesis in Sasanian History -- 2. “Ḥiwi” (Ḥəyyawi) of Balkh -- 3. Poor Pharaoh, Wicked Moses: The “Letter of Haman” — A Rabbinic Parody of Anti-Jewish Counter-History -- Part II Modern Contexts: Otherworldly Counter-Biography of the Other and the “Enemy Within” -- 4. Haim Vital, Founders of Other Faiths, and the Censors Nicholas I -- 5. Moses Mendelssohn, Hartwig Wessely, and Fear of the Haskalah.  aCounter-hagiography and counter-biography besmirch foundational figures held dear by different religious, political, or social groups. Such phenomena figure prominently in the history of religion and conflicts. For example, what we know of the Mazdakite revolution in pre-Islamic Iran/Iraq comes from revilers. The anti-Judaic polemicist from ninth-century Afghanistan and Iraq, Hiwi (“Snake”), was actually called Ḥəyyāwī (still a name among Iraqi Jews). The reputation of the great Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) thinker Moses Mendelssohn was damaged among the Orthodox by how Haskalah extremists portrayed him in their image. In 1869, a Genoan politician, Cesare Cabella, fulminated against Esther and Mordecai. In the Letter of Haman in rabbinic homiletics, Jews parodized hostile representations of their sacred history. Gerson Rosenzweig parroted in his 1892 talmudic-style Tractate America, anti-immigrant rhetoric from New York newspapers. Roman-age rabbis responded to claims about the protagonist of the Book of Joshua, “Joshua the Robber” as per a North African inscription early Byzantine Procopius of Caesarea alleged to have seen. 0aEuropexHistory. 0aWorld history. 0aReligionxHistory. 0aJudaism and culture. 0aJudaismxHistory.14aEuropean History.24aWorld History, Global and Transnational History.24aHistory of Religion.24aJewish Cultural Studies.24aJewish History.1 aPetrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303146068508iPrinted edition:z978303146070808iPrinted edition:z978303146071540uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46069-2