Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining the contentious, dynamic, and ethically complicated relationship between race and religion in Judaism. Includes perspectives from the fields of history, philosophy, sociology, ethics, religious studies, law, psychology, literary studies, and theology.
Trade Review“It is an invitation to leave the focus upon the collective self in favor of solidarity and an emphatic gaze to the Black community. In the multiform approach to the topic of Judaism, race, and racism, the volume suggests the development of solidarity with oppressed and persecuted people and a relatedness to marginalized groups.”
—Ephraim Meir Reading Religion
Table of ContentsPreface
Jonathan K. Crane
1. A Colorful, Complicated Conversation
An Introduction
Jonathan K. Crane
2. In the Color Line
The Tenacity of Racism and Its Challenge to Ethicists
Susannah Heschel
3. When Our Legs Utter Songs
Toward an Antiracist Ethic Based on Amos 1–6
Willa M. Johnson
4. Jews as Oppressed and Oppressor
Doing Ethics at the
Intersections of Classism, Racism, and Antisemitism
Judith W. Kay
5. Race and the Story of American Judaism
Aaron S. Gross
6. The “Yiddish Gaze”
American Yiddish Literary Representations of Black Bodies and Their Torture
Jessica Kirzane
7. Rituals of Commemoration
Sites for Cultural Memories as Traumatic Silences and Memorial Cries for Social Change
Nichole Renée Phillips
8. Jewish Critical Race Theory and Jewish “Religionization” in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb
Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank
9. Racial Standing
How American Jews Imagine Community, and Why That Matters
Sarah Imhoff
10. Race, Racism, and Psychopathology
From Anti-Semitic Vienna to the Post–Civil Rights Era in the United States
Sander L. Gilman
11. Whiteness as Anti-Theological
An Ethics of No Edges
George Yancy
List of Contributors
Index
