Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash
…in a bias for the contemporary or immediate past. We have no quarrel with American Jewish Studies or the study of contemporary Jews and Jewishness, in and of themselves. We commend shifts to heterogeneous subjects and methods, especially those informed by sociological theory and critical ethnography that critique inherited methods and introduce alternatives. Still, the overpromotion of the contemporary deleteriously affects adjacent subfields. Fe…
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