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"Jew. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, Jew has signified the consummate Other, a persistent fly in the ointment of grand Western cultural projects and narratives. Jew has not long served, however, as a name for self. With these insights as a point of d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Cynthia M. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Key words in Jewish studies ; 7.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1437212
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Terms of debate. first Jews
  • a Jew outward or a Jew inward?
  • Jews, women, slaves
  • From ethnos to ethnicity/race and religion
  • Part II. State of the (Jew[ish]) question
  • Vos macht a yid?
  • Jew in Jewish studies
  • Thinking (with) Jew(s)
  • Part III. In a new key: new Jews
  • Zionism's new Jew and the birth of the genomic Jew
  • New Jews in a new Europe
  • New Jews: a view from the new world.