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doi 10.1215/0961754X-1305382 17:3 © 2011 by Duke University Press Jean-Claude Schmitt, The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History and Fiction in the Twelfth Century, trans. Alex J. Novikoff (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 303 pp. Schmittâs study of the âShort Work About His Conversion,â attributed to âHer man the former Jew,â was published in 2003 to great acclaim and appears here in a somewhat awkward and occasionally inaccurate English translation. An appropri ate sequel to Schmittâs earlier work on folktales, dreams, gestures, and ghosts â as well as to the concerns of earlier practitioners, such as Natalie Zemon Davis and Carlo Ginzburg, of what is sometimes called historical anthropology â Schmittâs book tackles squarely the debates over the âShort Historyâ that have raged since Avrom Saltman proposed in 1988 that no such person as Herman ever existed. Arguing against Gerlinde Niemeyerâs efforts, in her edition of 1963, to flesh out information about the author, Saltman took the Opusculum as a polemical work written by twelfthÂcentury Christians for their coreligionists â a view that was made far more subtle in 1992 by Karl Morrison, who continued to see the treatise as proselytizing but argued that we need
Common Knowledge – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 21, 2011
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