Diasporas and Exiles
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Diasporas and Exiles

Varieties of Jewish Identity

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Diasporas and Exiles

Varieties of Jewish Identity

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Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; galut, the traditional Hebrew expression for the Jews' perennial condition, is better translated as "exile." The very distinction between diaspora and exile, although difficult to analyze, is important enough to form the basis of several essays in this fine collection. "Identity" is an even more elusive concept. The contributors to Diasporas and Exiles explore Jewish identity—or, more accurately, Jewish identities—from the mutually illuminating perspectives of anthropology, art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German history, philosophy, political theory, and sociology. These contributors bring exciting new emphases to Jewish and cultural studies, as well as the emerging field of diaspora studies. Diasporas and Exiles mirrors the richness of experience and the attendant virtual impossibility of definition that constitute the challenge of understanding Jewish identity.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780520926899
Edition
1
Topic
Théologie et religion
Subtopic
Théologie juive

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. 1. Diaspora and Homeland
  6. 2. Coming to Terms with Exile
  7. 3. A Politics and Poetics of Diaspora: Heine’s “Hebräische Melodien”
  8. 4. Dancing at Two Weddings: Mazel between Exile and Diaspora
  9. 5. Portraiture and Assimilation in Vienna: The Case of Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat
  10. 6. A Different Road to Modernity: Jewish Identity in the Arab World
  11. 7. Remaking Jewish Identity in France
  12. 8. “This Is Not What I Want”: Holocaust Testimony, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity
  13. 9. The Ideology of Affliction: Reconsidering the Adversity Thesis
  14. 10. Jewish Identity Writ Small: The Everyday Experience of Baalot Teshuvah
  15. 11. Contesting Identities in Jewish Philanthropy
  16. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  17. INDEX