Unsettling Jewish Knowledge: Text, Contingency, Desire 9781512824315
Unsettling Jewish Knowledge offers unconventional approaches to Jewish thought and culture that span the fields of liter
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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Unreasonable Economy of Martyrdom in S. Y. Agnon’s “Holocaust Fiction”
Chapter 2. Agnon’s “At the Outset of the Day”: Body, Text, Interpretation
Chapter 3. Dirty Books: Narration, Contamination, and Textual Evidence for the Jewish Past
Chapter 4. Jews and the Christian Olfactory Imagination
Chapter 5. Imagining a Father: The Wandering Jew and Modern Jewish Identities in Danilo Kiš’s Prose
Chapter 6. Consolation Beyond Theodicy: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Isaiah’s Prophecies of Consolation
Chapter 7. Beyond Faith and Reason: R. Avraham Karelitz (Ḥazon Ish) on Certainty and Doubt, Love of the Law, and Constructing the Halakhic Self
Chapter 8. Enchanted Thinking: Toward a Genealogy of Mitnagdism and Talmudic Conceptualism (Lomdus)
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Unreasonable Economy of Martyrdom in S. Y. Agnon’s “Holocaust Fiction”
Chapter 2. Agnon’s “At the Outset of the Day”: Body, Text, Interpretation
Chapter 3. Dirty Books: Narration, Contamination, and Textual Evidence for the Jewish Past
Chapter 4. Jews and the Christian Olfactory Imagination
Chapter 5. Imagining a Father: The Wandering Jew and Modern Jewish Identities in Danilo Kiš’s Prose
Chapter 6. Consolation Beyond Theodicy: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Isaiah’s Prophecies of Consolation
Chapter 7. Beyond Faith and Reason: R. Avraham Karelitz (Ḥazon Ish) on Certainty and Doubt, Love of the Law, and Constructing the Halakhic Self
Chapter 8. Enchanted Thinking: Toward a Genealogy of Mitnagdism and Talmudic Conceptualism (Lomdus)
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
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- Anne C. Dailey (editor)
- Martin Kavka (editor)
- Lital Levy (editor)
