Jewish Frontiers
Jewish history has generally been understood as the history of a people displaced from their homeland, and this has played a defining role in how we understand Jewish identity. In this series of interlinked essays, noted critic Sander L. Gilman suggests that we examine Jewish history from a different starting point. Instead of focusing on "diaspora", Gilman reimagines Jewish history as the story of people living on a "frontier" — a place where all peoples, including Jews, interacted to define...
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In a series of interlinked essays, Sander Gilman reimagines Jewish identity as that of people living on a frontier rather than in a diaspora.
PrefaceIntroduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History11The First Comic Film about the Shoah: Jurek Becker and Cultural Opposition within the GDR352Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? On the Frontier between Acceptable and Unacceptable Representations of the Holocaust in Some Newer and Older Films653Smoking Jews on the Frontier954A French Frontier: Proust's Nose1115A Dream of Jewishness on the Frontier: Kafka's Tumor and "A Country Doctor"1296Private Knowledge: Jewish Illnesses and the Process of Identity Formation1497"We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature169Notes207Supplemental Reading235Index239
