The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity

by Jay Geller

Overview

Will appeal to readers interested in psychoanalysis, in Jewish studies, in cultural studies, and in the whole question of "the body," which has been so intensely discussed in recent years. Maps the dissemination of and possible interrelationships among these corporeal signifiers in Germanophone cultures between the Enlightenment and the Shoah. Geller is known as a pioneer in Jewish studies, especially in its cultural studies mode.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823233625
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Jay Geller is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. His On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions was published by Fordham.

Editorial Reviews

"A fascinating book about Jewish embodiment and the complex relationship between the Jewish body and German-Jewish modernity."—Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles

"Jay Geller refers to Sander Gilman's early studies on the Jewish body, considers psychoanalytic theory as well as Jacques Derrida's attention to the text, and finds a voice that is very much his own. His The Other Jewish Question is nothing less than a tour de force—a review of German literary and philosophical texts from the early nineteenth (Rahel Varnhagen's letters) to the early twentieth century (Walter Benjamin's essays) that give evidence of the central importance of the figure of the Jew for the conception of what we now call 'modernity'."—Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania

"In this elegantly crafted and stunningly erudite exposition, Jay Geller explores the 'persistence' of the Jew as marked by difference, at least in the imagination of others, is to be understood as an index of the tortured emergence of Western modernity."—Paul Mendes-Flohr, The University of Chicago, Divinity School

"In the end, this book will be a welcome addition to any class on Jewish identity and Jewish life in Europe."—David Meola, H-Judiac, H-Net Reviews

From the Publisher

In the end, this book will be a welcome addition to any class on Jewish identity and Jewish life in Europe.

H-Judiac, H-Net Reviews - David Meola

A fascinating book about Jewish embodiment and the complex relationship between the Jewish body and German-Jewish modernity.

University of California, Los Angeles - Todd Presner