Scholars@Hallwalls: Alexandra Zirkle, “Chastening Germany: Graetz’s Lusty Jew and Asexual Jewess as Semitic Saviors”
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesPlease join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891), the famous historian and biblical exegete, penned his commentary to the Song of Songs in 1871 to counter rising antisemitism fueled by racialized fantasies of Jewish gender and sexuality. Graetz contested antisemitic tropes of Jewish manhood and womanhood by reconfiguring […]