Inspecting Jews
Subtitle: American Jewish Detective Stories
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780813533681
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Jewish; Detective and mystery stories, American; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; Jewish authors; American - General; Detective and mystery stories,; United States; American fiction; History and criticism; Intellectual life; Jews
First sentence: Though his penis is never mentioned in the eleven books that comprise his eponymous detective series, Rabbi David Small is a popular cultural example of Boyarin's feminized Jewish male, which means that he both illustrates and contradicts the Jewish ideal for which Boyarin longs.