Insider/Outsider

American Jews and Multiculturalism
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21122-3
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: University of California Press

Twelve distinguished historians, political theorists, and literary critics present new perspectives on multiculturalism in this important collection. Central to the essays (all but one is appearing in print for the first time) is the question of how the Jewish experience can challenge the conventional polar opposition between a majority "white monoculture" and a marginalized "minorities of color multiculture." This book takes issue with such a dichotomy by showing how experiences of American Jews can undo conventional categories. Neither a complaint against multiculturalism by Jews who feel excluded from it, nor a celebration of multiculturalism as the solution to contemporary Jewish problems, Insider/Outsider explores how the Jews' anomalous status opens up multicultural history in different and interesting directions. The goal of the editors has been to transcend the notion of "comparative victimology" and to show the value of a narrative that does not rely on competing histories of persecution. Readers can discover in these essays arguments that will broaden their understanding of Jewish identity and multicultural theory and will enliven the contemporary debate about American culture generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biale, David

Galchinsky, Michael

Heschel, Susannah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION: The Dialectic ofJewish Enlightenment
David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel
I: AMERICAN SYMPHONY OR MELTING POT?
1.The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity

David Biale
2.In Defense of Shaatnez: A Politics for Jews in a Multicultural America

Mitchell Cohen
3·Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews

Cheryl Greenberg
4·Multiculturalism and the Politics of Interest

Michael Walzer
II: CANONS AND COUNTERHISTORIES
5·Jewish Studies as Counterhistory

Susannah Heschel
6.The Paradox of Jewish Studies in the New Academy

Sara R. Horowitz
7·The Double Canonicity of the Hebrew Bible

Robert Alter
8.The Idea of Judaism in Feminism and Afrocentrism
Amy Newman
III: DIASPORA NEGOTIATIONS
9-Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diasporas

Michael Galchinsky
1O.Language as Homeland in Jewish-American Literature

Hana Wirth-Nesher
11.Modernism and Exile: A View from the Margins

Michael Gluzman
12.Fag-Hags and Bu-Jews: Toward a (Jewish) Politics of Vicarious Identity

Naomi Seidman
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

David Biale is Professor of Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Michael Galchinsky is Professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Susannah Heschel is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Case Western University.