2. In Defense of Shaatnez: A Politics for Jews in a Multicultural America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. INTRODUCTION: The Dialectic of Jewish Enlightenment 1
4. I: AMERICAN SYMPHONY OR MELTING POT?
5. 1. The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity 17
6. 2. In Defense of Shaatnez: A Politics for Jews in a Multicultural America 34
7. 3. Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews 55
8. 4. Multiculturalism and the Politics of Interest 88
9. II: CANONS AND COUNTERHISTORIES
10. 5. Jewish Studies as Counterhistory 101
11. 6. The Paradox of Jewish Studies in the New Academy 116
12. 7. The Double Canonicity of the Hebrew Bible 131
13. 8. The Idea of Judaism in Feminism and Afrocentrism 150
14. III: DIASPORA NEGOTIATIONS
15. 9. Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diasporas 185
16. 10. Language as Homeland in Jewish-American Literature 212
17. 11. Modernism and Exile: A View from the Margins 231
18. 12. Fag-Hags and Bu-Jews: Toward a (Jewish) Politics of Vicarious Identity 254
19. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 269
20. INDEX 273