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.
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Haut ab! Haltungen zur rituellen Beschneidung
(Snip it! Stances on Ritual Circumcision)
176 pages, 75 color illustrations,
Hardcover
Wallstein Publishing
Göttingen 2014ISBN: 978-3-8353-1576-1
In German only Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Cilly Kugelmann
for the Jewish Museum BerlinYigal Blumenberg, Alfred Bodenheimer, Kamal Ben Hameda,
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Ilhan Ilkiliç, Franz Kafka,
Cilly Kugelmann, Gerhard Langer, Thomas Lentes,
Philip Roth and othersLilian Dombrowsky, Michael Ebmeyer
Büro Harald Niessner
24.90 euros
Introduction
by Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Cilly Kugelmann
(In German only)
Download (PDF / 0.04 MB / in German / not accessible)Jüdische Altertümer, zwanzigstes Buch, zweites Kapitel
by Flavius Josephus
(In German only)
Download (PDF / 0.02 MB / in German / not accessible)Zur Beschneidung (On circumcision)
by Moses Maimonides
(In German only)
Download (PDF / 0.04 MB / in German / not accessible)Tagebucheintrag vom 24. Dezember 1911
by Franz Kafka
In German only
Download (PDF / 0.02 MB / in German / not accessible)You can order this publication from a bookstore, or from the museum by contacting
Jewish Museum Berlin
info@jmberlin.de