As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy
…focus on bodies, and on survival in the sense of making more bodies, has a price, and that price is that one must inadvertently racialize the Jew. But those scholars are not yet willing, it seems, to recognize the methods used to explore that racialization, in part because today the regnant view is that Jews are not a race. In short, something here is amiss that needs to be investigated. The problem is that too often—and here the “Cohen Affair” is…
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