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Baum, Devorah.
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Jews in literature.
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Baum, Devorah.
Jews -- Identity.
Jews in literature.
Jews in popular culture.
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Feeling Jewish : (a book for just about anyone) / Devorah Baum.
by
Baum, Devorah.
Yale University Press, 2017.
Call #:
305.8924 B347f
Subjects
Jews
-- Identity.
Jews
in
literature
.
Jews
in popular culture.
ISBN:
9780300212440 (hc.)
Description:
282 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: How are you? -- Self-hatred -- Envy -- Guilt -- Over the top -- Paranoia -- Mother love -- Affected -- Conclusion: Intelligence gathering.
Summary:
"An original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish - even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern
Jews
. Reflecting on why
Jews
have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to "negative" feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are. And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized, uprooted, and existentially threatened, she argues that such "Jewish" feelings are becoming increasingly common to us all. Ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Sarah Bernhardt to Woody Allen, Anne Frank to Nathan Englander, Feeling Jewish bridges the usual fault lines between left and right, insider and outsider, Jew and Gentile, and even Semite and anti-Semite, to offer an indispensable guide for our divisive times. Devorah Baum is lecturer in English
literature
and critical theory at the University of Southampton"--Provided by publisher.
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