Thinking in Jewish

by Jonathan Boyarin

Book Overview

How does one "think" in Jewish? What does it mean to speak in English of Yiddish as Jewish, as a certain intermediary generation of immigrants and children of immigrants from Jewish Eastern Europe has done?

A fascination with this question prompted Jonathan Boyarin, one of America's most original thinkers in critical theory and Jewish ethnography, to offer the unexpected Jewish perspective on the vexed issue of identity politics presented here...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226069273
• ISBN13: 9780226069272
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"