Is Theory Good For The Jews

Author : Bruno Chaouat
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381212

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Is Theory Good for the Jews? by Bruno Chaouat Pdf

For at least fifteen years, any keen observer of European society has been aware that antisemitism is no longer a matter of racial theory, nationalism, or exclusion of the 'other.' While in the past antisemites saw Jews as all too modern 'rootless cosmopolitans' (to use Stalin's expression), today's European antisemitism construes them as obsolete precisely because they are attached to their roots, their land, their community, their origin. The Jews are now perceived as a reactionary force that hinders the progress of humankind toward multiculturalism, understood as the peaceful, infinitely enriching coexistence of ethnicities, races, religions, and cultures within the same territory. The antisemite of yore viewed the Jews as an inferior race; today he views them as racist. By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, Is Theory Good for the Jews? explores how 'French thought' is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and local upsurge of antisemitism. The author probes the legacy of Heidegger in France and exposes the shortcomings of radical social critique and postcolonial theory confronted to the challenge of Islamic terrorism and Jew hatred. This book is the first effort to analyze French responses that have regrettably played their part in generating the new antisemitism.

Author : Bruno Chaouat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781383346

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Is Theory Good for the Jews? is the first attempt at exploring the cultural, intellectual, literary, and ideological roots of French engagement with the global and local upsurge of antisemitism in the 21st century. It is also the first attempt at analyzing the French responses to this new crisis. Chaouat endeavors to understand phenomena of repression, distortion, perversion, or outright denial, within the specific context of French intellectual and cultural history. By looking back to the 1960s and the emergence of a theoretical discourse on trauma, victims and suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews in literature, philosophy, and literary theory, he offer the first in-depth exploration of the cultural roots of French responses to the new antisemitism.

Author : Shai Ginsburg,Martin Land,Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823282012

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Jews and the Ends of Theory by Shai Ginsburg,Martin Land,Jonathan Boyarin Pdf

Theory, as it’s happened across the humanities, has often been coded as “Jewish.” This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School) or stereotypical (psychoanalysis as the “Jewish Science”) in order to show how certain problematics of modern Jewishness enrich theory. In the range of violence and agency that attend the appellation “Jew,” depending on how, where, and by whom it’s uttered, we can see that Jewishness is a rhetorical as much as a sociological fact, and that its rhetorical and sociological aspects, while linked, are not identical. Attention to this disjuncture helps to elucidate the questions of power, subjectivity, identity, figuration, language, and relation that modern theory has grappled with. These questions in turn implicate geopolitical issues such as the relation of a people to a state and the violence done in the name of simplistic identitarian ideologies. Clarifying a situation where “the Jew” is not readily or unproblematically legible, the editors propose what they call “spectral reading,” a way to understand Jewishness as a fluid and rhetorical presence. While not divorced from sociological facts, this spectral reading works in concert with contemporary theory to mediate pessimistic and utopian impulses, experiences, and realities. Contributors: Svetlana Boym, Andrew Bush, Sergey Dolgopolski, Jay Geller, Sarah Hammerschlag, Hannan Hever, Martin Land, Martin Jay, James I. Porter, Yehouda Shenhav, Elliot R. Wolfson

Author : Bruno Chaouat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 178694409X

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Is Theory Good for the Jews? by Bruno Chaouat Pdf

By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, 'Is Theory Good for the Jews?' explores how 'French thought' is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and local upsurge of antisemitism. The author probes the legacy of Heidegger in France and exposes the shortcomings of radical social critique and postcolonial theory confronted to the challenge of Islamic terrorism and Jew hatred. This work analyzes French responses that have regrettably played their part in generating the new antisemitism.

Author : Maristella Botticini,Zvi Eckstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691144870

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The Chosen Few by Maristella Botticini,Zvi Eckstein Pdf

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.

Author : Adam Sutcliffe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691188805

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What Are Jews For? by Adam Sutcliffe Pdf

Introduction. What are Jews for? history and the purpose question -- Religion, sovereignty, Messianism : Jews and political purpose -- Reason, toleration, emancipation : Jews and philosophical purpose -- Teachers and traders : Jews and social purpose -- Light unto the nations : Jews and national purpose -- Normalization and its discontents : Jews and cultural purpose -- Conclusion. So what are Jews for?

Author : Sergei Nilus,Victor Emile Marsden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1947844962

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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Sergei Nilus,Victor Emile Marsden Pdf

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is almost certainly fiction, but its impact was not. Originating in Russia, it landed in the English-speaking world where it caused great consternation. Much is made of German anti-semitism, but there was fertile soil for "The Protocols" across Europe and even in America, thanks to Henry Ford and others.

Author : Anthony Julius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199600724

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Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius Pdf

The first ever comprehensive history of anti-Semitism in England, from medieval murder and expulsion through to contemporary forms of anti-Zionism in the 21st century.

Author : Bari Weiss
Publisher : Crown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593136058

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How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss Pdf

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • The prescient founder of The Free Press delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it. “A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York Times On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life, the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat mitzvah, came as a shock. But anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred, commonplace across the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe. So that terrible morning in Pittsburgh, as well as the continued surge of hate crimes against Jews in cities and towns across the country, raise a question Americans cannot avoid: Could it happen here? This book is Weiss’s answer. Like many, Weiss long believed this country could escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism. With its promise of free speech and religion, its insistence that all people are created equal, its tolerance for difference, and its emphasis on shared ideals rather than bloodlines, America has been, even with all its flaws, a new Jerusalem for the Jewish people. But now the luckiest Jews in history are beginning to face a three-headed dragon known all too well to Jews of other times and places: the physical fear of violent assault, the moral fear of ideological vilification, and the political fear of resurgent fascism and populism. No longer the exclusive province of the far right, the far left, and assorted religious bigots, anti-Semitism now finds a home in identity politics as well as the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of America First isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism, and in the spread of Islamist ideas into unlikely places. A hatred that was, until recently, reliably taboo is migrating toward the mainstream, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all. Weiss is one of our most provocative writers, and her cri de coeur makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and American values in this uncertain moment. Not just for the sake of America’s Jews, but for the sake of America.

Author : Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0873063449

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דרך ה׳ by Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto Pdf

Explores Divine regulation of the world. With Rabbi Yosef Begun's marginal notes. Vowelized, facing Hebrew and English texts.

Author : Chaim Gans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190237547

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A Political Theory for the Jewish People by Chaim Gans Pdf

"The book presents several interpretations of Zionism and the post-Zionist alternatives currently proposed for it as political theories for the Jews. It explicates their historiographical, philosophical and moral foundations and their implications for the relationships between Jews and Arabs in Israel/Palestine and between Jews in Israel and world Jews"--

Author : Jonathan Boyarin,Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816627509

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Jews and Other Differences by Jonathan Boyarin,Daniel Boyarin Pdf

Author : Daniel Boyarin,Daniel Itzkovitz,Ann Pellegrini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231113755

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Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin,Daniel Itzkovitz,Ann Pellegrini Pdf

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Author : Werner Sombart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351480437

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The Jews and Modern Capitalism by Werner Sombart Pdf

Since its first appearance in Germany in 1911, Jews and Modern Capitalism has provoked vehement criticism. As Samuel Z. Klausner emphasizes, the lasting value of Sombart's work rests not in his results-most of which have long since been disproved-but in his point of departure. Openly acknowledging his debt to Max Weber, Sombart set out to prove the double thesis of the Jewish foundation of capitalism and the capitalist foundation of Judaism. Klausner, placing Sombart's work in its historical and societal context, examines the weaknesses and strengths of Jews and Modern Capitalism.

Author : Zina J. Gimpelevich
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773554153

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The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature by Zina J. Gimpelevich Pdf

In Cold Rush Martin Breum travels through and describes the new quest for the Arctic and the tortuous ongoing diplomatic endeavours to maintain peace, while the governments involved all develop still stronger security presences.