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Book SynopsisAn exploration of Jewish identities, contesting conventional approaches. The contributors argue that Jewish identity should be conceptualized as an ongoing dynamic process of "becoming" in response to changing cultural and social conditions rather than as a stable defining body of traits.
Trade Review"The pleasures and rewards of this volume are ample. Mapping Jewish Identities opens upand reinvigoratesquestions of Jewish identity and difference. En route to revealing the multiple possibilities of modern Jewish identity, it also succeeds in charting vital new routes for Jewish Cultural Studies today." -- Ann Pellegrini,author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
"This exciting book is based on the premise that we do not already know what Jewish identities are. Mapping Jewish Identities offers pathways away from essentialized notions of Jewishness and provides the intellectual tool for ‘alternative modes of Jewish becoming.' A treat to read." -- Miriam Peskowitz,author of Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History and coeditor with Laura Levitt of Judaism since Gender
