Adam Zachary Newton

Jewish Studies as Counterlife

A Report to the Academy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780823283941
• ISBN-10: 0823283941
• Artikelnr.: 53542819

Autorenporträt

Adam Zachary Newton is University Professor Emeritus, Yeshiva University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Interchapter I: JS Davka 30
1. Jewish Studies as Lever 35
Interchapter II: The Dialectics of Ownership 55
2. Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork 60
Interchapter III: "Past its own aim, out to another side" 83
3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities 87
Interchapter IV: Speaking of JS; and Its Vicissitudes 123
4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS 127
Interchapter V: Bildung and Built-ins 161
5. Ventilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers 165
Epilogue: Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi 191
Notes 201
Works Cited 239
Index 273