notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents v
3. abbreviations vii
4. Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum 1
5. chapter 1. “O beastly Jews” 29
6. chapter 2. Name That Varmint 57
7. chapter 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps 81
8. chapter 4. “If you could see her through my eyes . . .” 109
9. chapter 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I 139
10. chapter 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II 155
11. chapter 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/ New World, or Talk to the Animals 170
12. chapter 8. Dogged by Destiny 188
13. afterword. “It’s clear as the light of day” 221
14. acknowledgments 233
15. notes 237
16. references 341
17. index 385