Multiculturalism and the Jews
In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?\ Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues: what does it mean to be multicultural?...
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In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues: what does it mean to be multicultural? Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a useful model for Islam in today's multicultural Europe? What is a multicultural ethnic? Other chapters look at specific figures in Jewish cultural history – Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Israel Zangwill, Philip Roth, the hermaphrodite N.O. Body (aka Karl Baer, raised as Martha Baer) – to explore issues within Jewish identity. Throughout, Gilman pays keen attention to the ways in which contemporary literature – Chabon, Ozick, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary Shteyngart – taking the idea of Jewishness and multiculturalism into new arenas.
1Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a model for Islam in today's multiculturalism Europe?12Jews and the culture of decorum in Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Germany233Jews and the constitution of the multicultural ethnic454Jews, multiculturalism, and Israel Zangwill's "melting pot"655Franz Kafka's diet : and answer to hybridity856Albert Einstein's violin : Jews, music, and the performance of identity997Whose body is it anyway? : hermaphrodites, gays, and Jews in N. O. Body's Germany1118The fanatic : Philip Roth and Hanif Kureishi confront success1259"We're not Jews" : imagining Jewish history and Jewish bodies in contemporary non-Jewish multicultural literature14510Are Jews multicultural enough? : late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary multiculturalism as seen from Jewish perspectives17911Points of conflict : cultural values in "green" and "racial" anti-Semitism225
