{"product_id":"jew-key-words-in-jewish-studies-9780813563022","title":"Jew Key Words in Jewish Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e has signified the consummate \u003ci\u003eOther\u003c\/i\u003e, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization’s grand narratives and cultural projects. Only very recently, however, has \u003ci\u003eJew \u003c\/i\u003ebeen reclaimed as a term of self-identification and pride. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWith these insights as a point of departure, this book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the key word \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e—a term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience, but indeed at the core of Western civilization. Examining scholarly debates about the origins and early meanings of \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia M. Baker interrogates categories like “ethnicity,” “race,” and “religion” that inevitably feature in attempts to define the word. Tracing the term’s evolution, she also illuminates its many contradictions, revealing how \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e has served as a marker of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Baker here undertakes the task of trying to navigate as well as interrogate the trajectory of the term 'Jew' from antiquity to the present. Yet Baker’s book is much more than macro-history: it is a subtle intervention that seeks to question and challenge conventional theories about ethnicity, religion, and the very making of the West.\" * Marginalia Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"A rewarding and important book… Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers will find a new and fascinating idea on every page of this highly sophisticated and provocative analysis of 'Jew.' This is a book that opens new and avant-garde intellectual vistas.\" -- Susannah Heschel * Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College *\u003cbr\u003e\"Baker richly explores [new technologies of identity].\" * AJS Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by the Series Editors\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  A Note on Orthography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  Owning the Word\u003cbr\u003e  Jews, Jew, the Jews, the Jew, Jewish, Jewess\u003cbr\u003e  Outline of This Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1 Terms of Debate\u003cbr\u003e  First Jews\u003cbr\u003e  A Jew Outward or a Jew Inward?\u003cbr\u003e  Jews, Women, Slaves\u003cbr\u003e  From Ethnos to Ethnicity\/Race and Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2 State of the (Jew[ish]) Question\u003cbr\u003e  Vos Macht a Yid?\u003cbr\u003e  Jew in Jewish Studies\u003cbr\u003e  Thinking (with) Jew(s)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3 In a New Key: New Jews\u003cbr\u003e  Zionism’s New Jew and the Birth of the Genomic Jew\u003cbr\u003e  New Jews in a New Europe\u003cbr\u003e  New Jews: A View from the New World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  NotesIndex \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405784555863,"sku":"9780813563022","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813563022.jpg?v=1730493606","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jew-key-words-in-jewish-studies-9780813563022","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}