Multiculturalism and the Jews
By: Sander L. Gilman.
Publisher: Routledge; Brand: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Jews -- Identity; Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Pluralism (Social sciences); Judaism -- Relations -- Islam; Islam -- Relations -- Judaism; Multiculturalism in literature; Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a model for Islam in today's Multicultural Europe?; title: Chapter 2. Jews and the culture of decorum in enlightenment and post-enlightenment Germany; title: Chapter 3. Jews and the constitution of the multicultural ethnic; title: Chapter 4. Jews, multiculturalism, and Israel; title: Chapter 5. Franz Kafka's diet: an answer to hybridity; title: Chapter 6. Albert Einstein's violin: Jews, music, and the performance of identity; title: Capter 7. Whose Body is it Any Way? hermaphrodites, gays, and Jews in N.O. bodies Germany; title: Chapter 8. The fanatic: Philip Roth and Hanif Kureishi confront success; title: Chapter 9. We are not Jews: imagining Jewish history and Jewish bodies in contemporary non-Jewish multicultural  literature.