Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narr... more Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narratives that comprise the discourse of antisemitism. Because representations of Jews are inevitably gendered, it would be impossible to understand fundamental aspects of the mechanisms of antisemitism in modernity without considering its intersections with gender and sexuality. In cultural and political discourse, notions of gender and race function together as important signifiers of otherness and outsiderness, especially in the context of evolving ideas about the modern citizen. Both the external discourse about Jews and the internal discourse among Jews rely, either implicitly or explicitly, on gendered tropes-recurring patterns of images about sexual difference, identity, and practice. These gendered Jewish figures include effeminate, weak, and passive men; aggressively greedy and rapacious men; domineering and suffocating women; and materialistic, frigid, and manipulative women. In the popular imagination, gender difference and Jewish difference become intertwined, the one fueling, challenging, or justifying the other. Although they initially followed separate trajectories, the theoretical and critical conversations about gender and about antisemitism bear on one another in important ways. By now, the significance of gender as a crucial component of cultural analysis has been well established. Introduced first by feminist studies and enriched by gender and queer studies, using gender as a category of analysis entails examining the actual and imagined experiences
... who also fights back. The 1903 Kishinev massacre, which initiated a series of pogroms over th... more ... who also fights back. The 1903 Kishinev massacre, which initiated a series of pogroms over the next four years, inspired Haim N. Bialik's famous poem, "Ba'ir haharegah" ("In the City of Slaughter"). In his stunningly insightful ...
the link between his different topics, despite the title, not always clear, the book is written w... more the link between his different topics, despite the title, not always clear, the book is written with passion and a radical indignation at the unjust way in which many (especially in the Church) have caused great and continuing 'psychic damage' by failing to come to terms with complex sexual issues. The book takes a courageous and prophetic stance on many of the most difficult issues of the day.
One of the most important witnesses of the Holocaust, and a writer of astonishing literary range ... more One of the most important witnesses of the Holocaust, and a writer of astonishing literary range and volume, H.G. Adler produced a vast and complex body of writing, most of it in German, but remained little known during his lifetime aside from his encyclopedic study Theresienstadt 1941-1945. Belated recognition is arriving with the recent translation of his modernist Holocaust trilogy. Gathering together the foremost Adler scholars in the world, this collection of essays is the first in English dedicated to Adler's Gesamtkunstwerk.
Aharon Appelfeld is one of the undisputed giants of contemporary Israeli literature. This volume ... more Aharon Appelfeld is one of the undisputed giants of contemporary Israeli literature. This volume brings together critical papers presented at an international symposium on the work of Aharon Appelfeld held at York University, Toronto. It also includes a number of original short stories by Aharon Appelfeld in English translation, a long interview and, for the first time, a complete bibliography of Appelfeld's works as well as secondary sources on him.
... both Spiegelman and Lanzmann structure their works so that the reader or viewer becomes not s... more ... both Spiegelman and Lanzmann structure their works so that the reader or viewer becomes not so much a listener to a story, a memory, but a witness to ongoing acts of remembering, of reliving. Both artists, however, take great pains to distinguish their own work from fiction. ...
The depiction of Jewish ritual on American television stands out from ordinary TV fare. Not surpr... more The depiction of Jewish ritual on American television stands out from ordinary TV fare. Not surprisingly, since its early popularization the culture of television in America has been vaguely Christian. Vaguely, because television programs depict a fairly secularized culture, with religion often left unstated and unobtrusive; Christian, because the dominant culture in America is Christian, and thus need not be specified. Religious markers, when they appear in the course of regular television series, are Christian, and their use implies the presumption of an audience that grasps the set of meanings associated with themfor example, the Christmas tree and carols linked with peace, love, and coming together. Jewish ritual, when it appears, puts into relief the Christianness of TV-land. Jewish difference makes apparent the unstated but presumed Christianity, and at the same time, it highlights the general absence of the Other. Infrequent enough to warrant attention, these televised moments of Judaism and Jewishness raise complex questions about the nature of the American multiculture, and the negotiation of ethnic, national, and religious identities, through the prism of Jewish exclusion and belonging. The last two decades of the twentieth century brought greater diversity to the screen and an increased number of identifiably Jewish characters as regulars on television series.1 While situation-comedies play on popular stereotypes (such as the Jewish princess, the Jewish mother, the effeminate Jewish man), television dramas examine a set of issues relating to Jewish identity through the portrayal of the enactment of Jewish ritual. As presented on American television, these rituals mix the familiar with the alien, the ordinary with the exotic. Rare but never entirely absent, the function of televised Jewish ritualparticularly life cycle ritualhas shifted over time. Life cycle ritualmarking such events as birth, puberty, marriage, and deathcouples the emotional charge universally inherent to those events with particular cultural signifiers that are also emotionally charged. Part of the impact of ♦ SAJL 49 Volume 29 (2010) ♦
Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narr... more Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narratives that comprise the discourse of antisemitism. Because representations of Jews are inevitably gendered, it would be impossible to understand fundamental aspects of the mechanisms of antisemitism in modernity without considering its intersections with gender and sexuality. In cultural and political discourse, notions of gender and race function together as important signifiers of otherness and outsiderness, especially in the context of evolving ideas about the modern citizen. Both the external discourse about Jews and the internal discourse among Jews rely, either implicitly or explicitly, on gendered tropes-recurring patterns of images about sexual difference, identity, and practice. These gendered Jewish figures include effeminate, weak, and passive men; aggressively greedy and rapacious men; domineering and suffocating women; and materialistic, frigid, and manipulative women. In the popular imagination, gender difference and Jewish difference become intertwined, the one fueling, challenging, or justifying the other. Although they initially followed separate trajectories, the theoretical and critical conversations about gender and about antisemitism bear on one another in important ways. By now, the significance of gender as a crucial component of cultural analysis has been well established. Introduced first by feminist studies and enriched by gender and queer studies, using gender as a category of analysis entails examining the actual and imagined experiences
Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narr... more Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narratives that comprise the discourse of antisemitism. Because representations of Jews are inevitably gendered, it would be impossible to understand fundamental aspects of the mechanisms of antisemitism in modernity without considering its intersections with gender and sexuality. In cultural and political discourse, notions of gender and race function together as important signifiers of otherness and outsiderness, especially in the context of evolving ideas about the modern citizen. Both the external discourse about Jews and the internal discourse among Jews rely, either implicitly or explicitly, on gendered tropes-recurring patterns of images about sexual difference, identity, and practice. These gendered Jewish figures include effeminate, weak, and passive men; aggressively greedy and rapacious men; domineering and suffocating women; and materialistic, frigid, and manipulative women. In the popular imagination, gender difference and Jewish difference become intertwined, the one fueling, challenging, or justifying the other. Although they initially followed separate trajectories, the theoretical and critical conversations about gender and about antisemitism bear on one another in important ways. By now, the significance of gender as a crucial component of cultural analysis has been well established. Introduced first by feminist studies and enriched by gender and queer studies, using gender as a category of analysis entails examining the actual and imagined experiences
... who also fights back. The 1903 Kishinev massacre, which initiated a series of pogroms over th... more ... who also fights back. The 1903 Kishinev massacre, which initiated a series of pogroms over the next four years, inspired Haim N. Bialik's famous poem, "Ba'ir haharegah" ("In the City of Slaughter"). In his stunningly insightful ...
the link between his different topics, despite the title, not always clear, the book is written w... more the link between his different topics, despite the title, not always clear, the book is written with passion and a radical indignation at the unjust way in which many (especially in the Church) have caused great and continuing 'psychic damage' by failing to come to terms with complex sexual issues. The book takes a courageous and prophetic stance on many of the most difficult issues of the day.
One of the most important witnesses of the Holocaust, and a writer of astonishing literary range ... more One of the most important witnesses of the Holocaust, and a writer of astonishing literary range and volume, H.G. Adler produced a vast and complex body of writing, most of it in German, but remained little known during his lifetime aside from his encyclopedic study Theresienstadt 1941-1945. Belated recognition is arriving with the recent translation of his modernist Holocaust trilogy. Gathering together the foremost Adler scholars in the world, this collection of essays is the first in English dedicated to Adler's Gesamtkunstwerk.
Aharon Appelfeld is one of the undisputed giants of contemporary Israeli literature. This volume ... more Aharon Appelfeld is one of the undisputed giants of contemporary Israeli literature. This volume brings together critical papers presented at an international symposium on the work of Aharon Appelfeld held at York University, Toronto. It also includes a number of original short stories by Aharon Appelfeld in English translation, a long interview and, for the first time, a complete bibliography of Appelfeld's works as well as secondary sources on him.
... both Spiegelman and Lanzmann structure their works so that the reader or viewer becomes not s... more ... both Spiegelman and Lanzmann structure their works so that the reader or viewer becomes not so much a listener to a story, a memory, but a witness to ongoing acts of remembering, of reliving. Both artists, however, take great pains to distinguish their own work from fiction. ...
The depiction of Jewish ritual on American television stands out from ordinary TV fare. Not surpr... more The depiction of Jewish ritual on American television stands out from ordinary TV fare. Not surprisingly, since its early popularization the culture of television in America has been vaguely Christian. Vaguely, because television programs depict a fairly secularized culture, with religion often left unstated and unobtrusive; Christian, because the dominant culture in America is Christian, and thus need not be specified. Religious markers, when they appear in the course of regular television series, are Christian, and their use implies the presumption of an audience that grasps the set of meanings associated with themfor example, the Christmas tree and carols linked with peace, love, and coming together. Jewish ritual, when it appears, puts into relief the Christianness of TV-land. Jewish difference makes apparent the unstated but presumed Christianity, and at the same time, it highlights the general absence of the Other. Infrequent enough to warrant attention, these televised moments of Judaism and Jewishness raise complex questions about the nature of the American multiculture, and the negotiation of ethnic, national, and religious identities, through the prism of Jewish exclusion and belonging. The last two decades of the twentieth century brought greater diversity to the screen and an increased number of identifiably Jewish characters as regulars on television series.1 While situation-comedies play on popular stereotypes (such as the Jewish princess, the Jewish mother, the effeminate Jewish man), television dramas examine a set of issues relating to Jewish identity through the portrayal of the enactment of Jewish ritual. As presented on American television, these rituals mix the familiar with the alien, the ordinary with the exotic. Rare but never entirely absent, the function of televised Jewish ritualparticularly life cycle ritualhas shifted over time. Life cycle ritualmarking such events as birth, puberty, marriage, and deathcouples the emotional charge universally inherent to those events with particular cultural signifiers that are also emotionally charged. Part of the impact of ♦ SAJL 49 Volume 29 (2010) ♦
Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narr... more Ideas about gender-about what men and women are and do-are deeply enfolded in the images and narratives that comprise the discourse of antisemitism. Because representations of Jews are inevitably gendered, it would be impossible to understand fundamental aspects of the mechanisms of antisemitism in modernity without considering its intersections with gender and sexuality. In cultural and political discourse, notions of gender and race function together as important signifiers of otherness and outsiderness, especially in the context of evolving ideas about the modern citizen. Both the external discourse about Jews and the internal discourse among Jews rely, either implicitly or explicitly, on gendered tropes-recurring patterns of images about sexual difference, identity, and practice. These gendered Jewish figures include effeminate, weak, and passive men; aggressively greedy and rapacious men; domineering and suffocating women; and materialistic, frigid, and manipulative women. In the popular imagination, gender difference and Jewish difference become intertwined, the one fueling, challenging, or justifying the other. Although they initially followed separate trajectories, the theoretical and critical conversations about gender and about antisemitism bear on one another in important ways. By now, the significance of gender as a crucial component of cultural analysis has been well established. Introduced first by feminist studies and enriched by gender and queer studies, using gender as a category of analysis entails examining the actual and imagined experiences
Explores the connections between muteness and the complicated acts of survival, testimony, memor... more Explores the connections between muteness and the complicated acts of survival, testimony, memory, and interpretation, through focused readings of Holocaust fiction by Kosinski, Wiesel, Tournier, Ida Fink, and others.
The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run throu... more The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run through current thinking about the Holocaust and ideas about the different ways we engage with a broad range of sources. New sources ranging from traditional archival finds to microhistories accessible via newer technology infuse Holocaust research. At the same time, the fields of Holocaust research and Jewish studies have an increasing impact upon other disciplines. Overall, the editor and writers find that the integration of insights, methodologies, critiques, and questions from psychology, literary studies, visual arts, and other fields with those of history, political science, and other social sciences sharpens the tools of analysis. The essays in this volume testify to the evolution of the field of Holocaust studies and also indicate a future direction.
A collection of critical papers presented at an international symposium on the work of Aharon App... more A collection of critical papers presented at an international symposium on the work of Aharon Appelfeld held at York University, Toronto. It also includes a number of original short stories by Aharon Appelfeld in English translation, a long interview and, for the first time, a complete bibliography of Appelfeld's works as well as secondary sources on him.
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