# The Jewish Body

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- Book: [The Jewish Body](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvin-konner/the-jewish-body) ([The Jewish Body.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvin-konner/the-jewish-body.md))
- Authors: [Melvin Konner](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvin-konner)
- Publisher: schocken
- ISBN: 978-08-0524-236-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2009-01-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs. Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,”...