Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Illustrations xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction: Toward a Physiognomic Epidemiology of the Fetishized Jew 1
7. Chapter 1 ‘‘Feminization’’ and the Problem of Jewish Persistence 32
8. Chapter 2 Tailing the Suspect, or the Braiding of Gender and Ethnic Difference 50
9. Chapter 3 From Mohels to Mein Kampf Syphilis and the Construction of Jewish Identification 88
10. Chapter 4 Circumcision and a Jewish Woman’s Identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Failed Assimilation 132
11. Chapter 5 Going to ‘‘Alimentary’’ School: Brotstudium, Ludwig Feuerbach, and the Dietetics of Antisemitism 150
12. Chapter 6 From Rags to Risches: On Marx’s Other Jewish Question 169
13. Chapter 7 A Future without Jews: Max Nordau’s Pre-Zionist Answer to the Other Jewish Question 212
14. Chapter 8 President Schreber and the Memoirs of a Wandering Jew(ess) 233
15. Chapter 9 Walter Benjamin Reproducing the Scent of the Messianic 256
16. Notes 303
17. References 421
18. Index 487