How would you start to explain the origins of Jewish stereotypes and generalizations of Jews? What kinds of cultural factors gave rise to these ideas? How does this knowledge challenge anti-Semitism today?

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Read the brief article by Sara Lipton titled “The Invention of the Jewish Nose” in The New York Review of Books.

Using both Lipton and the Hahn Tapper readings for this week, how would you start to explain the origins of Jewish stereotypes and generalizations of Jews? What kinds of cultural factors gave rise to these ideas? How does this knowledge challenge anti-Semitism today?

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