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The modern world is faced with a terrifying new 'disease', that of 'obesity'. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting. This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and ficti...

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University and is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities, Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence (Nebraska 1996), and Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity.

Jewish Self-Hatred has all the qualities of a master work by a seminal mind. It is a contribution of the first rank and should be regarded as one of the finest studies we are likely to see for a long time of a remarkable and sobering cultural phenomenon." -- Chaim Potok, Philadelphia Inquirer."A broad panorama of antisemitism... Gilman's volume has the great merit of a quite unusual breadth of reference." -- Times Literary Supplement.

Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history of smoking has been written based on the assumption that smoking - in all of its forms and products - is a cultural phenomenon common to all human societies."Smoke: A Global History of Smokin...

A pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jew's body in 20th-century art and literature.

In an era of attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?"), a distinguished teacher and scholar presents a series of closely interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and future possibilities of the humanities.