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Insider/outsider : American Jews and multiculturalism / edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520920026
  • 0520920023
  • 0585047774
  • 9780585047775
  • 9780520211087
  • 0520211081
  • 9780520211223
  • 0520211227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Insider/outsider.DDC classification:
  • 305.892/4073 21
LOC classification:
  • E184.J5 I47 1998eb
NLM classification:
  • 000092490
Other classification:
  • 71.52
  • 71.62
  • MS 1235
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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