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The Other in Jewish thought and history : constructions of Jewish culture and identity / edited by Laurence J. Silberstein and Robert L. Cohn.

Contributor(s): Silberstein, Laurence J. (Laurence Jay), 1936- | Cohn, Robert L
Material type: TextTextSeries: New perspectives on Jewish studies: Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 1994Description: xi, 467 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0814779905 (pbk.); 9780814779903 (pbk.); 0814779891 (alk. paper); 9780814779897 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Judaism -- Relations | Jews -- Identity | Gentiles | Jews -- Attitudes | Women in Judaism | Jewish-Arab relations | Outsiders in literature | Jewish literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 305.8/924 LOC classification: BM534 | .O84 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Others within and others without: rethinking Jewish identity and culture / Laurence J. Silberstein -- Outsiders or insiders: the biblical view of emergent Israel and its contexts / Peter Machinist -- The Philistine as other: biblical rhetoric and archaeological reality / Trude Dothan and Robert L. Cohn -- Before Israel: the Canaanites as other in biblical tradition / Robert L. Cohn -- Spinning tales: on reading gender and otherness in Tannaitic texts / Miriam Peskowitz -- The other as woman: an aspect of polemic among pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman world / Ross S. Kraemer -- Navigating the anomalous: non-Jews at the intersection of early Rabbinic law and narrative / Steven D. Fraade -- Woman--the feminine as other in theosophic Kabbalah: some philosophical observations on the divine androgyne / Elliot R. Wolfson -- From Pharaoh to Saddam Hussein: the reproduction of the other in the Passover Haggadah / Adi Ophir -- Territoriality and otherness in Hebrew literature of the War of Independence / Hannan Hever -- Appendix: "The Battle of Fort Williams" -- Otherness and Israel's Arab dilemma / Ilan Peleg -- The creation of others: a case study of Meir Kahane and his opponents / Gerald Cromer -- The woman as other in Israeli cinema / Orly Lubin -- Israel and America--imagining the other: Natan Shaham's "The salt of the earth" and Philip Roth's The counterlife / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Black is black: Jewish-American reparations in Bernard Malamud's "Black is my favorite color" and Stanley Elkin's "I take care of Ed Wolfe" / Elizabeth Fifer -- The Jewish nose: are Jews white? Or, the history of the nose job / Sander L. Gilman -- The other in Levinas and Derrida: society, philosophy, Judaism / Jacob Meskin -- The other within and the other without / Jonathan Boyarin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Others within and others without: rethinking Jewish identity and culture / Laurence J. Silberstein -- Outsiders or insiders: the biblical view of emergent Israel and its contexts / Peter Machinist -- The Philistine as other: biblical rhetoric and archaeological reality / Trude Dothan and Robert L. Cohn -- Before Israel: the Canaanites as other in biblical tradition / Robert L. Cohn -- Spinning tales: on reading gender and otherness in Tannaitic texts / Miriam Peskowitz -- The other as woman: an aspect of polemic among pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman world / Ross S. Kraemer -- Navigating the anomalous: non-Jews at the intersection of early Rabbinic law and narrative / Steven D. Fraade -- Woman--the feminine as other in theosophic Kabbalah: some philosophical observations on the divine androgyne / Elliot R. Wolfson -- From Pharaoh to Saddam Hussein: the reproduction of the other in the Passover Haggadah / Adi Ophir -- Territoriality and otherness in Hebrew literature of the War of Independence / Hannan Hever -- Appendix: "The Battle of Fort Williams" -- Otherness and Israel's Arab dilemma / Ilan Peleg -- The creation of others: a case study of Meir Kahane and his opponents / Gerald Cromer -- The woman as other in Israeli cinema / Orly Lubin -- Israel and America--imagining the other: Natan Shaham's "The salt of the earth" and Philip Roth's The counterlife / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Black is black: Jewish-American reparations in Bernard Malamud's "Black is my favorite color" and Stanley Elkin's "I take care of Ed Wolfe" / Elizabeth Fifer -- The Jewish nose: are Jews white? Or, the history of the nose job / Sander L. Gilman -- The other in Levinas and Derrida: society, philosophy, Judaism / Jacob Meskin -- The other within and the other without / Jonathan Boyarin.

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