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Mapping Jewish identities / edited by Laurence J. Silberstein.

Contributor(s): Silberstein, Laurence J. (Laurence Jay), 1936-
Material type: TextTextSeries: New perspectives on Jewish studies: Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 2000Description: x, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0814797695 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780814797693 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0814797687 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780814797686 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- IdentityDDC classification: 305.892/4 LOC classification: DS143 | .M23 2000Bibliography, Etc. 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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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