Insider/outsider : American Jews and multiculturalism /
edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.
- 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment / The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity / In defense of Shaatnez : a politics for Jews in a multicultural America / Pluralism and its discontents : the case of Blacks and Jews / Multiculturalism and the politics of interest / Jewish studies as counterhistory / The paradox of Jewish studies in the new academy / The double canonicity of the Hebrew bible / The idea of Judaism in feminism and afrocentricism / Scattered seeds : a dialogue of diasporas / Language as homeland in Jewish-American literature / Modernism and exile : a view from the margins / Fags-hags and bu-Jews : toward a (Jewish) politics of vicarious identity / David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel -- David Biale -- Mitchell Cohen -- Cheryl Greenberg -- Michael Walzer -- Susannah Heschel -- Sara R. Horowitz -- Robert Alter -- Amy Newman -- Michael Galchinsky -- Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Michael Gluzman -- Naomi Seidman.
Jews--Intellectual life.--United States Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States. Multiculturalism--United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies. Jews--Cultural assimilation. Jews--Intellectual life. Multiculturalism. Joden. Plurale samenleving. Acculturatie. Social Sciences. Ethnic & Race Studies. Gender & Ethnic Studies.