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Book SynopsisThis volume assesses the role of Jews, as both agents and figures, in the development of critical and literary theory in the twentieth century and beyond. Its topics range from Biblical criticism to the relationship between Derrida and Levinas, from Mizrachi Jews in Israel to the Zionisms of Buber and Scholem.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jews, Theory, and Ends
Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin, 1
1. Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance
Martin Jay, 27
2. The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy: An Essay on Sovereignty and Translation
Yehouda Shenhav, 48
3. The Ends of Ladino
Andrew Bush, 65
4. The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and His Literary Betrayal of Levinas
Sarah Hammerschlag, 88
5. Jews, in Theory
Sergey Dolgopolski, 108
6. The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals
Jay Geller, 142
7. The Off-Modern Turn: Modernist Humanism and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam
Svetlana Boym, 164
8. Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach
James I. Porter, 187
9. Buber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies
Hannan Hever, 225
10. Against the “Attack on Linking”: Rearticulating the “Jewish Intellectual” for Today
Martin Land, 263
11. Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory
Elliot R. Wolfson, 293
List of Contributors 313
Index 317
