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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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