Unsettling Jewish knowledge : text, contingency, desire / edited by Anne C. Dailey, Martin Kavka, and Lital Levy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dailey, Anne C., editor.

Kavka, Martin, editor.

Levy, Lital, editor.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Jews--Study and teaching.

Jews.

Jewish philosophy.

Jews--Civilization.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary volume offers a fresh approach to Jewish thought and culture spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology. Its contributors foreground the roles of emotions, senses, and the imagination in Jewish experience, ultimately "unsettling" Jewish studies by pushing it out of its comfort zone"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Unreasonable Economy of Martyrdom in S. Y. Agnon's "Holocaust Fiction" / Yael S. Feldman

Chapter 2. Agnon's "At the Outset of the Day": Body, Text, Interpretation / Shira Stav

Chapter 3. Dirty Books: Narration, Contamination, and Textual Evidence for the Jewish Past / Eva Mroczek

Chapter 4. Jews and the Christian Olfactory Imagination / John Efron

Chapter 5. Imagining a Father: The Wandering Jew and Modern Jewish Identities in Danilo Kiš's Prose / Galit Hasan-Rokem

Chapter 6. Consolation Beyond Theodicy: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Isaiah's Prophecies of Consolation / Eli Schonfeld

Chapter 7. Beyond Faith and Reason: R. Avraham Karelitz (Hazon Ish) on Certainty and Doubt, Love of the Law, and Constructing the Halakhic Self / Shaul Magid

Chapter 8. Enchanted Thinking: Toward a Genealogy of Mitnagdism and Talmudic Conceptualism (Lomdus) / Paul E. Nahm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9781512824308

1512824305

OCLC:

1367971736