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Jewish. For beginners and advanced

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A history of interpretation

What is "Jewish"? A reach for the dictionary and a glance at entries such as "Jude," "Jew" or "juif" reveal how differently "Jews" were defined depending on time, language and attitude. The exhibition shows definitions from 400 years in German, English, French and Italian. The ideas that non-Jews had about Jews ranged from pejorative to valorizing, from ideological to idealizing. Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.