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Insider/outsider : American Jews and multiculturalism / edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel.

Contributor(s): Biale, David, 1949- | Galchinsky, Michael | Heschel, Susannah
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: vi, 280 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520211227 (pbk : alk. paper); 0520211081 (cl : alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life | Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States | Multiculturalism -- United StatesDDC classification: 305.892/4073 LOC classification: E184.J5 | I47 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment / David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel -- The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity / David Biale -- In defense of Shaatnez : a politics for Jews in a multicultural America / Mitchell Cohen -- Pluralism and its discontents : the case of Blacks and Jews / Cheryl Greenberg -- Multiculturalism and the politics of interest / Michael Walzer -- Jewish studies as counterhistory / Susannah Heschel -- The paradox of Jewish studies in the new academy / Sara R. Horowitz -- The double canonicity of the Hebrew bible / Robert Alter -- The idea of Judaism in feminism and afrocentricism / Amy Newman -- Scattered seeds : a dialogue of diasporas / Michael Galchinsky -- Language as homeland in Jewish-American literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Modernism and exile : a view from the margins / Michael Gluzman -- Fags-hags and bu-Jews : toward a (Jewish) politics of vicarious identity / Naomi Seidman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment / David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel -- The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity / David Biale -- In defense of Shaatnez : a politics for Jews in a multicultural America / Mitchell Cohen -- Pluralism and its discontents : the case of Blacks and Jews / Cheryl Greenberg -- Multiculturalism and the politics of interest / Michael Walzer -- Jewish studies as counterhistory / Susannah Heschel -- The paradox of Jewish studies in the new academy / Sara R. Horowitz -- The double canonicity of the Hebrew bible / Robert Alter -- The idea of Judaism in feminism and afrocentricism / Amy Newman -- Scattered seeds : a dialogue of diasporas / Michael Galchinsky -- Language as homeland in Jewish-American literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Modernism and exile : a view from the margins / Michael Gluzman -- Fags-hags and bu-Jews : toward a (Jewish) politics of vicarious identity / Naomi Seidman.

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