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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Cover; Multiculturalism and the Jews; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Can the Experience of Diaspora Judaism Serve as aModel for Islam in Today's Multicultural Europe?; 2 Jews and the Culture of Decorum in Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment Germany; 3 Jews and the Constitution of the Multicultural Ethnic; 4 Jews, Multiculturalism, and Israel Zangwill's "Melting Pot"; 5 Franz Kafka's Diet: An Answer to Hybridity; 6 Albert Einstein's Violin: Jews, Music, and the Performance of Identity; 7 Whose Body Is It Anyway? Hermaphrodites, Gays, and Jews in N.O. Body's Germany |
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8 The Fanatic: Philip Roth and Hanif Kureishi Confront Success9 "We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Non-Jewish Multicultural Literature; 10 Are Jews Multicultural Enough? Late Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First-Century Literary Multiculturalism as Seen from Jewish Perspectives; 11 Points of Conflict: Cultural Values in "Green" and "Racial" Anti-Semitism; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 multicultu |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- Identity.
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Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Judaism -- Relations -- Islam.
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Islam -- Relations -- Judaism.
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Multiculturalism in literature.
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Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Cultural Diversity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Cultural pluralism
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Interfaith relations
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Islam
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Jews -- Identity
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Judaism
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Multiculturalism in literature
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135208202 |
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1135208204 |
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