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Jewish studies as counterlife : a report to the academy / Adam Zachary Newton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823283965
  • 0823283968
  • 9780823283972
  • 0823283976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish studies as counterlife.DDC classification:
  • 296.07 23
LOC classification:
  • BM71 .N49 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interchapter I. Js Davka -- Chapter 1. Jewish studies as lever -- Interchapter II. The dialectics of owner ship -- Chapter 2. Jewish studies and the pitchfork -- Interchapter III. "Past its own aim, out to another side" -- Chapter 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: js and the humanities -- Interchapter IV. Speaking of js; and its vicissitudes -- Chapter 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, canon and list: a heterotopology for js -- Interchapter V. Bildung and built-ins -- Chapter 5. Ventilating the tradition: Rashbam and the Coen brothers -- Epilogue. Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index
Summary: This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1863976

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interchapter I. Js Davka -- Chapter 1. Jewish studies as lever -- Interchapter II. The dialectics of owner ship -- Chapter 2. Jewish studies and the pitchfork -- Interchapter III. "Past its own aim, out to another side" -- Chapter 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: js and the humanities -- Interchapter IV. Speaking of js; and its vicissitudes -- Chapter 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, canon and list: a heterotopology for js -- Interchapter V. Bildung and built-ins -- Chapter 5. Ventilating the tradition: Rashbam and the Coen brothers -- Epilogue. Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index