Snip it!
Stances on Ritual Circumcision
Exhibition Catalog
The exhibition catalog depicts the objects from the show and includes essays and literature delving deeper into the subject. The authors consider circumcision from a variety of viewpoints, reflecting on its significance in Islam and Judaism, and analyzing the debate that raged in Germany after the Cologne circumcision verdict was announced in summer 2012.
Details & Excerpts
- Haut ab! Haltungen zur rituellen Beschneidung
(Snip it! Stances on Ritual Circumcision)
176 pages, 75 color illustrations
Hardcover
Wallstein Publishing
Göttingen 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8353-1576-1
In German only - Editors Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Cilly Kugelmann
for the Jewish Museum Berlin - Contributing Writers Yigal Blumenberg, Alfred Bodenheimer, Kamal Ben Hameda, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Ilhan Ilkiliç, Franz Kafka, Cilly Kugelmann, Gerhard Langer, Thomas Lentes, Philip Roth and others
- Translations Lilian Dombrowsky, Michael Ebmeyer
- Design Büro Harald Niessner
- Price 24.90 €
Introduction
by Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Cilly Kugelmann
Download (PDF / 45.87 KB / in German / not accessible)Jüdische Altertümer, zwanzigstes Buch, zweites Kapitel
by Flavius Josephus
Download (PDF / 21.44 KB / in German / not accessible)Zur Beschneidung (On circumcision)
by Moses Maimonides
Download (PDF / 44.63 KB / in German / not accessible)Tagebucheintrag vom 24. Dezember 1911
by Franz Kafka
Download (PDF / 23.06 KB / in German / not accessible)You can order this publication from a bookstore, or from the museum by contacting
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