The eighteenth century has long been considered a formative period in the history of European racial identity. Difference of a Different Kind offers a new exploration of the ways Jewish authors confronted notions of race that began to pervade European ideology and adapted them to construct their own identity.

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Introduction
1 An East Indian Encounter: Rape and Infanticide in the Memoirs of Glikl Bas Leib
2 "And Let him Speak": Noble and Ignoble Savages in Yehudah Horowitz's Amudey beyt Yehudah
3 Whitewashing Jewish Darkness: Baruch Lindau and the "Species" of Man
4 Fantasies of Acculturation: Campe's Savages in the Service of the Haskalah
Epilogue. A Terrible Tale: Some Final Thoughts on Jews and Race
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Iris Idelson-Shein is Associate Professor of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.