ISBN:
9780415222075
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (352 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Coming Out Jewish
DDC:
305.8924
Keywords:
Multiculturalism - Religious aspects - Judaism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Coming Out Jewish〈/I〉 explores the idea of 'Jewishness' as a problem of racial/ethnic identity in the modern and post-modern world. It is a path-breaking book that firmly places the Jewish experience on the Cultural Studies agenda
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How not to assimilate; Speaking as a Jew in British cultural studies; European Jews, assimilation and the uncanny; Ghetto thinking and everyday life; (Dis)placement in the state; Jews, representation and the modern state; Historicising the idea of diaspora; Migrating to utopia; Not quite white; Jews, race and the White Australia policy; Jews and multiculturalism in Australia; Making social space for Jews in America; Seinfeldis a Jewish sitcom, isn't it?; Bibliography; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
