Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities

by Sander L. Gilman

Book Overview

In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and identity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403965609
• ISBN13: 9781403965608
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"