Contributes to the discussion over the attribution of inherent physiological traits to certain ethnic groups Opens up concepts of the relationship between the terms "color", "race" and "Jews" Addresses academic and social discourses that continue to place Jews and others in a race/color category
Contributes to the discussion over the attribution of inherent physiological traits to certain ethnic groups Opens up concepts of the relationship between the terms "color", "race" and "Jews" Addresses academic and social discourses that continue to place Jews and others in a race/color category
Efraim Sicher is Professor of Comparative and English Literature at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has published essays and books on modern Jewish culture, Holocaust memory, and anti-Semitism. His most recent books are The Holocaust Novel (2005), Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity (2012), Rereading the City / Rereading Dickens (2nd edition 2012), and Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "Jew" in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse, 2012).
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Sander Gilman Introduction: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" Efraim Sicher PART I: JEWS AND RACE IN AMERICA Chapter 1. "I'm not White - I'm Jewish": The Racial Politics of American Jews Cheryl Greenberg Chapter 2. Reflections on Black/Jewish Relations in the Age of Obama Ibrahim Sundiata Chapter 3. Stains, Plots, and the Neighbor Thing: Jews, Blacks and Philip Roth's Utopias Adam Zachary Newton Chapter 4. Spaces of Ambivalence: Blacks and Jews in New York City Catherine Rottenberg Chapter 5. African-American Culture, Anthropological Practices and the Jewish "Race" in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men Dalit Alperovich Chapter 6. Jewish Characters in Weeds: Reinserting 'Race' into the Postmodern Discourse on American Jews Hannah Adelman Komy Ofir and Shlomi Deloia PART II: JEWS AS BLACKS / BLACK JEWS Chapter 7. A Member of the Club? How Black Jews Negotiate Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism Bruce Haynes Chapter 8. Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel: The Discourses of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Racism Steven Kaplan Chapter 9. Black-Jews in Academic and Institutional Discourse Yonah Zianga Chapter 10. The "Descendants of David" of Madagascar: Crypto-Judaic identities in 21st century Africa Edith Bruder PART III: DISCOURSES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES Chapter 11. After the Fact: "Jews" in Post-1945 German Physical Anthropology Amos Morris-Reich Chapter 12. Genes as Jewish History?: Human Population Genetics in the Service of Historians Noa Sophie Kohler and Dan Mishmar Chapter 13. Sarrazin and the Myth of the "Jewish Gene" Klaus Hödl Chapter 14. Blood, Soul, Race, and Suffering: Full-Bodied Ethnography and Expressions of Jewish Belonging Fran Markowitz Chapter 15. Jews, Muslims, European Identities: Multiculturalism and Anti-Semitism in Britain Efraim Sicher Chapter 16. Brothers in Misery: Re-connecting Sociologies of Racism and Anti-Semitism Glynis Cousin and Robert Fine Chapter 17. Race by the Grace of God: Race, Religion, and the Construction of "Jew" and "Arab" Ivan Davidson Kalmar Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Foreword Sander Gilman Introduction: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" Efraim Sicher PART I: JEWS AND RACE IN AMERICA Chapter 1. "I'm not White - I'm Jewish": The Racial Politics of American Jews Cheryl Greenberg Chapter 2. Reflections on Black/Jewish Relations in the Age of Obama Ibrahim Sundiata Chapter 3. Stains, Plots, and the Neighbor Thing: Jews, Blacks and Philip Roth's Utopias Adam Zachary Newton Chapter 4. Spaces of Ambivalence: Blacks and Jews in New York City Catherine Rottenberg Chapter 5. African-American Culture, Anthropological Practices and the Jewish "Race" in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men Dalit Alperovich Chapter 6. Jewish Characters in Weeds: Reinserting 'Race' into the Postmodern Discourse on American Jews Hannah Adelman Komy Ofir and Shlomi Deloia PART II: JEWS AS BLACKS / BLACK JEWS Chapter 7. A Member of the Club? How Black Jews Negotiate Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism Bruce Haynes Chapter 8. Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel: The Discourses of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Racism Steven Kaplan Chapter 9. Black-Jews in Academic and Institutional Discourse Yonah Zianga Chapter 10. The "Descendants of David" of Madagascar: Crypto-Judaic identities in 21st century Africa Edith Bruder PART III: DISCOURSES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES Chapter 11. After the Fact: "Jews" in Post-1945 German Physical Anthropology Amos Morris-Reich Chapter 12. Genes as Jewish History?: Human Population Genetics in the Service of Historians Noa Sophie Kohler and Dan Mishmar Chapter 13. Sarrazin and the Myth of the "Jewish Gene" Klaus Hödl Chapter 14. Blood, Soul, Race, and Suffering: Full-Bodied Ethnography and Expressions of Jewish Belonging Fran Markowitz Chapter 15. Jews, Muslims, European Identities: Multiculturalism and Anti-Semitism in Britain Efraim Sicher Chapter 16. Brothers in Misery: Re-connecting Sociologies of Racism and Anti-Semitism Glynis Cousin and Robert Fine Chapter 17. Race by the Grace of God: Race, Religion, and the Construction of "Jew" and "Arab" Ivan Davidson Kalmar Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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