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9%OFFJay Geller - The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity - 9780823233625 - V9780823233625
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The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity

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Description for The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity Paperback. Num Pages: 530 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 704.

This book examines how modernizing German-speaking cultures, undergoing their own processes of identification, responded to the narcissistic threat posed by the continued persistence of Judentum (Judaism, Jewry, Jewishness) by representing “the Jew”’s body—or rather parts of that body and the techniques performed upon them. Such fetish-producing practices reveal the question of German-identified modernity to be inseparable from the Jewish Question.
But Jewish-identified individuals, immersed in the phantasmagoria of such figurations—in the gutter and garret salon, medical treatise and dirty joke, tabloid caricature and literary depiction, church façade and bric-a-brac souvenir—had their own question, another Jewish Question. They also had ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
530
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823233625
SKU
V9780823233625
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-20

About Jay Geller
Jay Geller is Professor of Modern Jewish Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Vanderbilt University Jewish Studies Program, and has also taught at the University of Vienna, Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Swarthmore College, and Wesleyan University. He is the author of On Freud’s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions (2007), The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and ... Read more

Reviews for The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity
"In the end, this book will be a welcome addition to any class on Jewish identity and Jewish life in Europe."
David Meola -H-Judiac, H-Net Reviews "A fascinating book about Jewish embodiment and the complex relationship between the Jewish body and German-Jewish modernity."
-Todd Presner University of California, Los Angeles

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