Insider/outsider: American Jews and multiculturalism
Introduction : the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment /David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel --The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity /David Biale --In defense of Shaatnez : a politics for Jews in a multicultural America /Mitchell Cohen --Pluralism and...
| Summary: | Introduction : the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment /David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel --The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity /David Biale --In defense of Shaatnez : a politics for Jews in a multicultural America /Mitchell Cohen --Pluralism and its discontents : the case of Blacks and Jews /Cheryl Greenberg --Multiculturalism and the politics of interest /Michael Walzer --Jewish studies as counterhistory /Susannah Heschel --The paradox of Jewish studies in the new academy /Sara R. Horowitz --The double canonicity of the Hebrew bible /Robert Alter --The idea of Judaism in feminism and afrocentricism /Amy Newman --Scattered seeds : a dialogue of diasporas /Michael Galchinsky --Language as homeland in Jewish-American literature /Hana Wirth-Nesher --Modernism and exile : a view from the margins /Michael Gluzman --Fags-hags and bu-Jews : toward a (Jewish) politics of vicarious identity /Naomi Seidman. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 0520211081 |