TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,Cynthia M.
TI  - Jew
T2  - Key Words in Jewish Studies
SN  - 9780813563039
AV  - DS143 .B25 2017
U1  - 305.892/4 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - anti-semite
KW  - anti-semitic
KW  - antisemite
KW  - antisemitic
KW  - community
KW  - cultural identity
KW  - culture
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - holocaust
KW  - identity
KW  - immigration
KW  - israel
KW  - jew
KW  - jewish studies
KW  - jewish
KW  - judaism
KW  - religion
KW  - yiddish
KW  - zionism
KW  - zionist
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Jew or Jew? A Note on Orthography --; Introduction --; 1. Terms of Debate --; 2. State of the (Jew[ish]) Question --; 3. In a New Key: New Jews --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Jew. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, Jew has signified the consummate Other, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization's grand narratives and cultural projects. Only very recently, however, has Jew been reclaimed as a term of self-identification and pride. With these insights as a point of departure, this book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the key word Jew-a term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience, but indeed at the core of Western civilization. Examining scholarly debates about the origins and early meanings of Jew, Cynthia M. Baker interrogates categories like "ethnicity," "race," and "religion" that inevitably feature in attempts to define the word. Tracing the term's evolution, she also illuminates its many contradictions, revealing how Jew has served as a marker of materialism and intellectualism, socialism and capitalism, worldly cosmopolitanism and clannish parochialism, chosen status, and accursed stigma. Baker proceeds to explore the complex challenges that attend the modern appropriation of Jew as a term of self-identification, with forays into Yiddish language and culture, as well as meditations on Jew-as-identity by contemporary public intellectuals. Finally, by tracing the phrase new Jews through a range of contexts-including the early Zionist movement, current debates about Muslim immigration to Europe, and recent sociological studies in the United States-the book provides a glimpse of what the word Jew is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic sequencing, precarious nationalisms, and proliferating identities.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813563046
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813563046
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