{"product_id":"jew-paperback-softback-9780813563022","title":"Jew (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813563022","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJew\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCynthia M. Baker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813563022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 January 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Baker here undertakes the task of trying to navigate as well as interrogate the trajectory of the term 'Jew' from antiquity to the present. Yet Baker’s book is much more than macro-history: it is a subtle intervention that seeks to question and challenge conventional theories about ethnicity, religion, and the very making of the West.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Marginalia Review of Books) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A rewarding and important book… Highly recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Readers will find a new and fascinating idea on every page of this highly sophisticated and provocative analysis of 'Jew.' This is a book that opens new and avant-garde intellectual vistas.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Susannah Heschel (Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Baker richly explores [new technologies of identity].\"\u003c\/div\u003e (AJS Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e.  The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e has signified the consummate \u003ci\u003eOther\u003c\/i\u003e, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization’s grand narratives and cultural projects. Only very recently, however, has \u003ci\u003eJew \u003c\/i\u003ebeen reclaimed as a term of self-identification and pride.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWith these insights as a point of departure, this book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the key word \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e-a term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience, but indeed at the core of Western civilization. Examining scholarly debates about the origins and early meanings of \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia M. Baker interrogates categories like “ethnicity,” “race,” and “religion” that inevitably feature in attempts to define the word. Tracing the term’s evolution, she also illuminates its many contradictions, revealing how \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e has served as a marker of materialism and intellectualism, socialism and capitalism, worldly cosmopolitanism and clannish parochialism, chosen status, and accursed stigma.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBaker proceeds to explore the complex challenges that attend the modern appropriation of Jew as a term of self-identification, with forays into Yiddish language and culture, as well as meditations on \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e-as-identity by contemporary public intellectuals. Finally, by tracing the phrase \u003ci\u003enew Jews\u003c\/i\u003e through a range of contexts-including the early Zionist movement, current debates about Muslim immigration to Europe, and recent sociological studies in the United States-the book provides a glimpse of what the word \u003ci\u003eJew\u003c\/i\u003e is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic sequencing, precarious nationalisms, and proliferating identities.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eForeword by the Series Editors\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA Note on Orthography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOwning the Word\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJews, Jew, the Jews, the Jew, Jewish, Jewess\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOutline of This Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1 Terms of Debate\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFirst Jews\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA Jew Outward or a Jew Inward?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJews, Women, Slaves\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFrom Ethnos to Ethnicity\/Race and Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2 State of the (Jew[ish]) Question\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eVos Macht a Yid?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJew in Jewish Studies\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThinking (with) Jew(s)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3 In a New Key: New Jews\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eZionism’\u003cbr\u003es New Jew and the Birth of the Genomic Jew\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNew Jews in a New Europe\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNew Jews: A View from the New World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685418889496,"sku":"9780813563022","price":24.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jew-paperback-softback-9780813563022","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}