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Jewish Studies as Counterlife : A Report to the Academy /

This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn't fully happened-at least not yet. Newton asks what we mean when we say "Jewish Studies"-and when we imagine it not as mere amalgam but as a project. Jewish Studies offers a unique perspective from which to view the horizon of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Newton, Adam Zachary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Interchapter I. Js Davka
  • Chapter 1. Jewish studies as lever
  • Interchapter II. The dialectics of owner ship
  • Chapter 2. Jewish studies and the pitchfork
  • Interchapter III. "Past its own aim, out to another side"
  • Chapter 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: js and the humanities
  • Interchapter IV. Speaking of js; and its vicissitudes
  • Chapter 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, canon and list: a heterotopology for js
  • Interchapter V. Bildung and built-ins
  • Chapter 5. Ventilating the tradition: Rashbam and the Coen brothers
  • Epilogue. Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index