The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity, Jay Geller (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), xiv + 510 pp., hardcover 110.00, paperback 40.00
Jay Geller's The Other Jewish Question challenges any conventional way of reviewing a book. His densely written analysis of both iconic and arcane (mostly German-language) texts across a roughly two-hundred-year period is not for the intellectually faint-hearted. But it is a feast for the conno...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 326-329 |
| Review of: | The other Jewish question (New York, NY : Fordham Univ. Press, 2011) (Krondorfer, Björn)
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| Summary: | Jay Geller's The Other Jewish Question challenges any conventional way of reviewing a book. His densely written analysis of both iconic and arcane (mostly German-language) texts across a roughly two-hundred-year period is not for the intellectually faint-hearted. But it is a feast for the connoisseur who follows the evolution and morphing of ideas and uncovering how these ideas become markers for defining, defending, or regulating social relationships. Countless cross-references, ideational interpolations, phonemic allusions, psychoanalytic evocations, intertextual linkages, and morphemic conjectures—characteristic of both Geller's style and method—make up the bulk of the present work's 300-plus pages, followed by more than 200 pages of endnotes and references. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct035 |