Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Jews, Theory, and Ends 1
4. chapter 1. Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance 27
5. chapter 2. The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy: An Essay on Sovereignty and Translation 48
6. chapter 3. The Ends of Ladino 65
7. chapter 4. The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and His Literary Betrayal of Levinas 88
8. chapter 5. Jews, in Theory 108
9. chapter 6. The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals 142
10. chapter 7. The Off-Modern Turn: Modernist Humanism and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam 164
11. chapter 8. Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach 187
12. chapter 9. Buber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies 225
13. chapter 10. Against the “Attack on Linking”: Rearticulating the “Jewish Intellectual” for Today 263
14. 11. Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory 293
15. Contributors 313
16. Index 317