Research Catalog

Title

Mapping Jewish identities / edited by Laurence J. Silberstein.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Silberstein, Laurence J. (Laurence Jay), 1936-

Description

x, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

New perspectives on Jewish studies

Uniform Title

New perspectives on Jewish studies

Subject

• Jews > Identity
• Identität
• Etnisch bewustzijn
• Culturele identiteit
• Joden
• Juifs > Identité collective
• Juden

Genre/Form

Bethlehem (Pa., 1998)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Mapping, not tracing: opening reflection / Laurence J. Silberstein -- "The changing same": narratives of contemporary Jewish American identity / Tresa L. Grauer -- Photographing American Jews: identifying American Jewish life / Laura S. Levitt -- The labor of remembrance / Michelle A. Friedman -- Surviving on cat and Maus: Art Spiegelman's Holocaust tale / Marilyn Reizbaum -- On the Yiddish question / Anita Norich -- Two female characters in search of a theory: mapping Jewish identity through personal narrative / Regina Morantz-Sanchez -- The identity of the victims and the victims of identity: a critique of Zionist ideology for a post-Zionist age / Adi Ophir -- Mapping literary spaces: territory and violence in Israeli literature / Hannan Hever -- Reterritorializing the dream: Orly Castel-Bloom's remapping of Israeli identity / Deborah A. Starr -- Weighing the losses, like stones in your hand / Ammiel Alcalay -- The close call: or, could a Pharisee be a Christian? / Daniel Boyarin -- On thinking identity otherwise / Susan E. Shapiro -- Individuation without identity: a Deleuzian aesthetics of existence / Gordon C.F. Bearn.

ISBN

• 0814797687
• 9780814797686
• 0814797695
• 9780814797693

LCCN

00008121

OCLC

• ocm43411438
• 43411438
• SCSB-14422632

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library