Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282029-009
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282029-007
{"title":"chapter 6. The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823282029-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282029-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293041,"journal":{"name":"Jews and the Ends of Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131102668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282029-010
{"title":"chapter 9. Buber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823282029-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282029-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293041,"journal":{"name":"Jews and the Ends of Theory","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126346824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282029-004
{"title":"chapter 3. The Ends of Ladino","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823282029-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282029-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293041,"journal":{"name":"Jews and the Ends of Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129085350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0009
J. Porter
This chapter studies the work of the German literary critic Erich Auerbach, who wrote in response to the historical upheaval of the mid-twentieth century as a form of historical engagement. In his work, Auerbach endeavors to portray the evolution of historical consciousness in the West and the discovery of the human and social worlds it yielded. He reflects on this evolution in relating the narrative of realism. In this account, realism is not a literary genre, but rather the evolving recognition of human consciousness of its own conditions, the growing awareness, that is, that reality and the real inhere in the sensuous, the mundane, and the human. At the center of this narrative, Auerbach places Judaism and its heritage rather than Christianity. For Auerbach, history and historical consciousness first appear in the Jewish biblical stories, which provide in turn the structure and the framework for all subsequent expressions of historical thought and experience.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0001
S. Ginsburg, M. Land, Jonathan Boyarin
This introductory chapter discusses the intersections of the terms Jews, theory, and ends. These intersections have informed strategies of scholarly and intellectual engagements with society, culture, history, and politics that informed the “human sciences” in Western and Central Europe and North America. Often, such strategies came to be grouped together under the monikers criticism, theory, or, at times, critical theory. The chapter then considers the question of Jewishness in relation to critical theory. Tracing the spectral figure of the Jew in theory, the chapters put forward “spectral reading,” one that entails appellation: identification and naming. In light of the great catastrophes that have befallen Jews, which were often accompanied by the endeavor to extricate culture from the figure of the Jew and the Jewishness of the figure, spectral reading has often been an endeavor to excavate traces of a past that cannot be thought of but under the sign of violence.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0011
M. Land
This chapter begins by tracing the assertions that link the predominance of Jews in critical discourses to Jewish marginality to a 1919 essay by Thorstein Veblen. Veblen does not argue that creativity and innovation thrive on the margins but, rather, that marginal groups like the Jews are better able than their European contemporaries to hold to a position of detachment and alienation from tradition and received wisdom, transforming their marginality into a critical perspective from which they are able to question, as it were, both themselves and the European social and economic systems. Recent critics of Veblen have pointed at his blindness toward the cultural and economic characteristics of Jewish communal life. In their critique, however, they take the disproportionate success of American Jews as their prime measure, supplanting Veblen's intellectual value with monetary value. From this perspective, Jews are no longer marginal but, on the contrary, central to the ever-expanding social order of capital.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0008
S. Boym
This chapter examines the Russian literary critic Victor Shklovsky and poet Osip Mandelshtam to discuss the relationship between theory and Jews, exploring their autobiographical narratives to articulate what can be called the off-modern turn. That turn is a zigzag movement that defies the demands of systematic thinking and that does not follow any of the popular “isms” of Jewish intellectual engagement of the day: idealism, Marxism, nationalism, or messianism. Indeed, both Shklovsky and Mandelshtam look for artistic, political, and existential practices that defy theoretical conceptions along with their hierarchies and logics, for modes of art and thinking that undercut prescribed rules. Such practices bear the promise of freedom, of seeing the world anew, of a new beginning.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282005.003.0005
S. Hammerschlag
This chapter examines Jacques Derrida as a Jewish intellectual, locating in his work expressions of his identity as an intellectual and as a Jew. It applies insights from Derrida's philosophy of literature to his relationship with Emmanuel Levinas, probing the similarities and differences in their experience of these identities. Derrida's ambivalence toward Jewish community, in particular that aspect that imposes obligations and makes claims, was not separate from his awareness of familial overtones in his relationship with Levinas. Although Derrida discussed his Jewishness in various ways and contexts, it was through Levinas that he did and did not identify with the category of Jewish intellectual. In recounting a pair of anecdotes reported by Derrida, in which he revealed private comments made to him by Levinas, the chapter then exposes in the closeness of their relationship the operation of secrecy and betrayal, and the role of irony in constructing and subverting intimacy.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0003
Y. Shenhav
This chapter begins by discussing the efforts of the State of Israel to suppress both Palestinian assertion of state power and Palestinian spiritual renaissance. Much about these efforts can be understood from relatively recent Israeli legislation that prohibits certain types of discussion of the 1948 Nakba, the catastrophic exile of 750,000 Palestinians from towns, villages, and farms—quickly resettled by Jews—and the consequent uprooting of the social and cultural fabric of Palestinian society. These events, and the debate surrounding censorship of the Nakba, center on questions of Palestinian visibility analogous to those previously raised with respect to Jews. The chapter then analyzes the removal of Modern Hebrew away from its close linguistic ties to Arabic, demonstrating how political forces intervened to choose European languages rather than the linguistically closer spoken Arabic in modeling new vocabulary and grammatical structures.
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