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Informationen zum Autor Howard Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California! Riverside. Author of Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake?! and Other Essays (1991)! and of the forthcoming The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (2003)! he is an editor of the philosophical annual! Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Klappentext "Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme. This will be an important resource."—Hillel J. Kieval, author of Languages of Community Zusammenfassung Explores Jewish identity - or, more accurately, Jewish identities - from the mutually illuminating perspectives of anthropology, art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German history, philosophy, political theory, and sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Diaspora and Homeland 2. Coming to Terms with Exile 3. A Politics and Poetics of Diaspora: Heine's "Hebraische Medodien" 4. Dancing at Two Weddings: Mazel between Exile and Diaspora 5. Portraiture and Assimilation in Vienna: The Case of Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat 6. A Different Road to Modernity: Jewish Identity in the Arab World 7. Remaking Jewish Identity in France 8. "This is Not What I Want": Holocaust Testimony! Postmemory! and Jewish Identity 9. The Ideology of Affliction: Reconsidering the Adversity Thesis 10. Jewish Identity Writ Small: The Everyday Experience of Baalot Teshuvah 11. Contesting Identities in Jewish Philanthropy List of Contributors Index Contributors: Murray Baumgarten! Bluma Goldstein! Eric S. Gruen! Daniel J. Schroeter! Catherine M. Soussloff! Kerri Steinberg! Bernard Susser! Louise Tallen! Irwin Wall! Howard Wettstein! Diane L. Wolf
