Overview

This book is a multidisciplinary discussion of the possibility of Jewish critique, addressing intersections between Jewish Studies and critical paradigms in this moment of crisis. It traces how dominant modes of critique at times reproduce supersessionist and progress-oriented perspectives that foreclose critical possibilities offered by non-linear temporalities and only partially representable pasts. The contributors explore unexpected resonances between Mizrahi critique and Black thought, between the Palestinian and Jewish questions, and between Jewish practice and queer disruptions of traditionalist continuity, among others.

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Author:   Re’ee Hagay ,  Itamar Haritan
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031961830

ISBN 10:   3031961838
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   11 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Staying With the Storm: Jewish Critique in a Fragmented World.- Part I. A Jewish Episteme?.- 2. Angelos Novus, a Midrash: Critical Jewish Studies and the University to Come.- 3. Broken Names: Sonofragmentary Reflections on the Cairo Geniza.- 4. Rouminance (with a wāw).- 5. Reonsidering Jewish Feminism’s Political Theology: The Struggle at the Western Wall, a Visual Perspective.- Part II. Jewish Difference in Relation.- 6. The Angel of OTD History.- 7. The Diaspora Politics of Memory: What the Storm Provides.- 8. Angels and Lost Overcoats: Letting Go of Certitude with Christa Wolf.- 9. You Are Not the Same: Primo Levi's Figures of Hybridity.- 10. Society Must Be Upended: Judaism, Race, Revolution.- Part III. Jewish Apocalypses.- 11. Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question.- 12.Israeli Ashkenazi Identity and Mizrahi Critique: A Du Boisian Reading.- 13. Other Angels/Planetary Conversions.

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Re’ee Hagay is an interdisciplinary scholar of sound, space, and the formation of difference in Jewish and global South contexts at Vanderbilt University. He teaches in the Anthropology and Jewish Studies departments. Itamar Haritan is an anthropologist of national identity, intergenerational kinship and memory, focusing on alternative genealogical imaginations in Israeli society. He is a doctoral  candidate at Cornell University.

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