People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish IdentityJeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, Shelley Fisher Fishkin Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1996 - 507 pagina's A Mark Twain scholar. An African American philosopher. A lesbian feminist literary critic. A Cuban-American anthropologist. A German immigrant to the United States. A professor of English at a Jesuit university. All share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas in People of the Book, the first collection in which Jewish-American scholars examine how their Jewishness has shaped and influenced their intellectual endeavors, and how their intellectual work has deepened their sense of themselves as Jews. The contributors are highly productive and respected Jewish-American scholars, critics, and teachers from departments of English, history, American studies, Romance literature, Slavic studies, art, women's studies, comparative literature, anthropology, Judaic studies, and philosophy. Nearly an equal mix of men and women, the authors of these analytical and autobiographical essays include white Jews and black Jews; orthodox, conservative, reform, and totally secular Jews; Jews by birth and Jews by conversion; heterosexual Jews and homosexual Jews; past presidents of the Modern Language Association and American Studies Association and young scholars at the start of their careers. |
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TRANSFORMATIONS | 13 |
Strange Identities and Jewish Politics | 37 |
Changing the Story | 47 |
Apologetics and Negative Apologetics | 78 |
Terrifying Tales of Jewish Womanhood | 98 |
NEGOTIATIONS | 115 |
Assimilating T S Eliots Sweeneys | 135 |
Hadassah Arms | 153 |
Isaac de Pinto Voltaire | 313 |
Historians and the Holocaust | 323 |
Using Prousts Jews to Shape an Identity | 333 |
Juifemme | 343 |
From Assimilationist | 357 |
Gertrude Stein Allen Ginsberg | 375 |
The Example of Call It Sleep | 390 |
Shoah as Shivah | 403 |
Jews and Blacks | 169 |
Encounters with American Jews | 187 |
Exodus Discovery and Coming Home | 217 |
Once More on the Subject of Dostoevsky and the Jews | 231 |
Reflections | 245 |
EXPLORATIONS | 259 |
A Personal Report | 298 |
Walter Benjamin Gershom Scholem | 415 |
Cynthia Ozicks Paradoxical Wisdom | 427 |
Spiritual Romanticism and the Redeeming | 439 |
Perversion or Perversity? Woody and Me | 456 |
Glossary of Hebrew Yiddish and Yinglish Terms | 475 |
Notes on Contributors | 486 |
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