The Impossible Jew : : Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History / / Benjamin Schreier.
He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the...
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