Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture

Samantha Zacher is a professor of English and medieval studies at Cornell University.

• Samantha Zacher, “Introduction: The Jew in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination”  Defining the Jew: A Question of Race, Ethnicity, or Religion?Stephen J. Harris, “Anglo-Saxons, Israelites, Hebrews and Jews”Thomas N. Hall, “Nathan the Jew in the Old English Vindicta Salvatoris”  The Jew in Anglo-Saxon Theology and LiturgyDamian Fleming, “Hebraeam scire linguam: Bede’s Rhetoric of the Hebrew Truth”Kathy Lavezzo, “Building Anti-Semitism in Bede”Andrew P. Scheil, “Transition and Renewal: Jews and the Church Year in Anglo-Saxon England”  Literary Types and Anglo-Saxon AudiencesDaniel Anlezark, “Abraham’s Children: Jewish Promise and Christian Fulfillment”Thomas D. Hill, “Time, Liturgy and History in the Old English Elene”Charles D. Wright, “Jewish Magic and Christian Miracle in the Old English Andreas”  Visual Media: Representations of Jews and Jewish SpacesCatherine Karkov, “Hagar and Ishmael: the Uncanny and the Exile”Adam Cohen, “King Edgar Leaping and Dancing Before the Lord”Asa Mittman, “‘In those days’: Giants and the Giant Moses in the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch”  Epilogue: Pre- and Post-Conquest Identifications: Continuity and DifferenceHeide Estes, “Reading Ælfric in the Twelfth Century: Anti-Judaic Doctrine Becomes Anti-Judaic Rhetoric”

‘This impressive collection has a great deal to offer a variety of readers, both in the breadth of its material and the range of its approaches.- Renée R. Trilling (Speculum vol 93:01:2018) "Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon England reveals the complexity, variety, and profound significance of early medieval discourse on Jews and, by demonstrating how thoroughly such discourse pervaded Christian thought, points out productive methods for interpreting Anglo-Saxon literature and art."- Emily V. Thornbury, University of California at Berkeley (Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol 118:1)