LEADER 03709nam 22006495 450 001 9910882889103321 005 20240823124832.0 010 $a3-031-46069-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-46069-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31611603 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31611603 035 $a(CKB)34168629700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-46069-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9934168629700041 100 $a20240822d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBesmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside $eCounter-history or Its Parody /$fby Ephraim Nissan, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (401 pages) 311 $a3-031-46068-5 327 $aPart I Antiquity to the Middle Ages: An Iranic Locale, Outside Views -- 1. Mazdak, Mazdakism, and the Mazdakite Parenthesis in Sasanian History -- 2. ??iwi? (??yyawi) 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. 330 $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 ??yy?w? (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. 606 $aEurope$xHistory 606 $aWorld history 606 $aReligion$xHistory 606 $aJudaism and culture 606 $aJudaism$xHistory 606 $aEuropean History 606 $aWorld History, Global and Transnational History 606 $aHistory of Religion 606 $aJewish Cultural Studies 606 $aJewish History 615 0$aEurope$xHistory. 615 0$aWorld history. 615 0$aReligion$xHistory. 615 0$aJudaism and culture. 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory. 615 14$aEuropean History. 615 24$aWorld History, Global and Transnational History. 615 24$aHistory of Religion. 615 24$aJewish Cultural Studies. 615 24$aJewish History. 676 $a201.5 700 $aNissan$b Ephraim$01432917 701 $aPetrovsky-Shtern$b Yohanan$0479780 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910882889103321 996 $aBesmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside$94209922 997 $aUNINA