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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 Wirters

    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 euros

Catalogue Cover for the Exhibition

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

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