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God's Sacred Tongue: Hebrew and the American Imagination.(Book Review)

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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God's Sacred Tongue: Hebrew and the American Imagination. By Shalom Goldman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv + 349 pp.

Shalom Goldman's God's Sacred Tongue describes a bifurcated, often disturbing history of American Hebrew studies. Christian fascination and for...

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...even apparent love the Hebrew language and the "Old Testament" were matched by a disdain if not hatred for Jews from the 1600s into the mid-twentieth century. The result is an often disquieting story, not so much for its pathologies as for the passions about Hebrew that also pushed remarkably few Christians past a self-defeating casual antisemitism, to say nothing of the ways it reinforced American anti-Jewish sentiment....

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