Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in
relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness,
which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in
deep-rooted traditions of inclusion and exclusion that permeate the
culture's literature, religion, and politics.
This volume explores the ways in which Jews have traditionally
defined other groups and, in turn, themselves. The contributors, a
distinguished international group of scholars, explore the
discursive processss through which Jewish identity and culture have
been constructed, disseminated, and perpetuated.
Among the topics addressed are: Others in the biblical world;
the construction of gender in Roman-period Judaism; the Other as
woman in the Greco-Roman world; the gentile as Other in rabbinic
law; the feminine as Other in kabbalah; the reproduction of the
Other in the Passover Haggadah; the Palestinian Arab as Other in
Israeli politics and literature; the Other in Levinas and Derrida;
Blacks as Other in American Jewish literature; the Jewish body
image as symbol of Otherness; and women as Other in Israeli
cinema.
Contributors to this interdisciplinary volume are: Jonathan Boyarin
(New School for Social Research), Robert L. Cohn (Lafayette
College), Gerald Cromer (Bar-Ilan University), Trude Dothan (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem), Elizabeth Fifer (Lehigh University),
Steven D. Fraade (Yale University), Sander L. Gilman (Cornell
University), Hannan Hever (Tel Aviv University), Ross S. Kraemer
(University of Pennsylvania), Orly Lubin (Tel Aviv University),
Peter Machinist (Harvard University), Jacob Meskin (Williams
College), Adi Ophir (Tel Aviv University), Ilan Peleg (Lafayette
College), Miriam Peskowitz (University of Florida), Laurence J.
Silberstein (Lehigh University), Naomi Sokoloff (University of
Washington), and Elliot R. Wolfson (New York University).
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