03864nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-46069-2 DE-He213 20251030112904.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240822s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031460692 978-3-031-46069-2 10.1007/978-3-031-46069-2 doi D900-2027 HBJD bicssc HIS010000 bisacsh NHD thema Nissan, Ephraim. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82680 Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside [electronic resource] : Counter-history or Its Parody / by Ephraim Nissan, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXVIII, 378 p. 85 illus., 38 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Part 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. Counter-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. Europe History. 70908 World history. 65220 Religion History. 66931 Judaism and culture. 74893 Judaism History. 74891 European History. 57767 World History, Global and Transnational History. 66470 History of Religion. 66936 Jewish Cultural Studies. 74896 Jewish History. 74894 Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82681 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031460685 Printed edition: 9783031460708 Printed edition: 9783031460715 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46069-2 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 62630 62630