The other Jewish question identifying the Jew and making sense of modernity / Jay Geller.

Author/creator Geller, Jay, 1953-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 510 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Introduction: toward a physiognomic epidemiology of the fetishized Jew -- Feminization and the problem of Jewish persistence -- Tailing the suspect, or the braiding of gender and ethnic difference -- From mohels to Mein Kampf: syphilis and the construction of Jewish identification -- Circumcision and a Jewish woman's identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's failed assimilation -- Going to "alimentary" school: brotstudium, Ludwig feuerbach, and the dietetics of antisemitism -- From rags to risches: on Marx's other Jewish question -- A future without Jews: Max Nordau's pre-Zionist answer to the other Jewish question -- President Schreber and the memoirs of a wandering Jew(ess) -- Walter Benjamin reproducing the scent of the messianic.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 421-486) and index.
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LCCN 2011009665
ISBN9780823233618 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823233625 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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