TY - BOOK AU - Nissan,Ephraim AU - Petrovsky-Shtern,Yohanan ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside: Counter-history or Its Parody SN - 9783031460692 AV - D900-2027 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Europe KW - History KW - World history KW - Religion KW - Judaism and culture KW - Judaism KW - European History KW - World History, Global and Transnational History KW - History of Religion KW - Jewish Cultural Studies KW - Jewish History N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46069-2 ER -