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Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism »

Authors: David Biale (Editor), Michael Galchinsky
ISBN-13: 9780520211223, ISBN-10: 0520211227
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: March 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David Biale

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.

Book Synopsis

"
Invaluable reading for anyone interested in multiculturalism."—Julius Lester, author of Lovesong

"I know of no other work that, through numerous insights and useful distinctions, so alerts us to and comprehensively documents the ongoing constitutive role of Christian and anti-semitic perceptions of Jewish existence and the interactions between them. Whereas much contemporary historiography has become so specialized that historians have surrendered the larger picture, Biale's panoramic perspective reveals the great value and interest of this work."—Steven E. Aschheim, author of Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad

	Introduction: The Dialectic of Jewish Enlightenment	1
1	The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity	17
2	In Defense of Shaatnez: A Politics for Jews in a Multicultural America	34
3	Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews	55
4	Multiculturalism and the Politics of Interest	88
5	Jewish Studies as Counterhistory	101
6	The Paradox of Jewish Studies in the New Academy	116
7	The Double Canonicity of the Hebrew Bible	131
8	The Idea of Judaism in Feminism and Afrocentrism	150
9	Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diasporas	185
10	Language as Homeland in Jewish-American Literature	212
11	Modernism and Exile: A View from the Margins	231
12	Fag-Hags and Bu-Jews: Toward a (Jewish) Politics of Vicarious Identity	254
	Notes on Contributors	269
	Index	273