In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the
idea of "the multicultural" in the contemporary world, a question
he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and
Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn
defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that
turn in large part around a secularized Christian
perspective?
Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues:
what does it mean to be multicultural? Can the experience of
diaspora Judaism serve as a useful model for Islam in today's
multicultural Europe? What is a multicultural ethnic? Other
chapters look at specific figures in Jewish cultural
history--Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Israel Zangwill, Philip
Roth, the hermaphrodite N.O. Body (aka Karl Baer, raised as Martha
Baer)--to explore issues within Jewish identity. Throughout, Gilman
pays keen attention to the ways in which contemporary
literature--Chabon, Ozick, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary
Shteyngart--is taking the idea of Jewishness and multiculturalism
into new arenas.
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