Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About “Judaism”? xi
5. Part I. The Terms of the Debate
6. 1. The Debate of the Terms 1
7. Part II. The State of the Lexicon: Questioning the Archive
8. 2. Jewry without Judaism: The Stakes of the Question 33
9. 3. Getting Medieval Yahadut 60
10. Part III. A New Dispensation: The Christian Invention of “Judaism”
11. 4. “Judaism” out of the Entrails of Christianity 105
12. 5. From Yiddishkayt to Judentum; From Judentum to Yahadut; or Philology and the Transformation of a Folk 130
13. Epilogue: Theory as Askesis 153
14. Acknowledgments 157
15. Notes 159
16. Bibliography 201
17. Index 211
18. Index of Works Cited 217
19. About the Author 219