The other Jewish question
Subtitle: identifying the Jew and making sense of modernity
By: Jay Geller
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780823233618; 9780823233625
Subjects: Modern Civilization; Antisemitism; Jews; Identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward a physiognomic epidemiology of the fetishized Jew; title: Feminization and the problem of Jewish persistence; title: Tailing the suspect, or the braiding of gender and ethnic difference; title: From mohels to Mein Kampf: syphilis and the construction of Jewish identification; title: Circumcision and a Jewish woman's identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's failed assimilation; title: Going to "alimentary" school: brotstudium, Ludwig feuerbach, and the dietetics of antisemitism; title: From rags to risches: on Marx's other Jewish question; title: A future without Jews: Max Nordau's pre-Zionist answer to the other Jewish question; title: President Schreber and the memoirs of a wandering Jew(ess); title: Walter Benjamin reproducing the scent of the messianic.