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The dynamics of Jewishness interacting with other racial categories differ significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean compared with those in the United States and Canada, largely due to long-standing and often disputed concepts of mestizaje, broadly defined as racial mixture. Absorption Narratives charts the ways in which literary works capture differences and similarities among Black, Jewish, and Indigenous experiences.

After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Beinart argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose horror will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew? Beinart imagines an alternate narrative, which would draw on other nations' efforts at moral reconstruction and a different reading of Jewish tradition.

Jewish life in Latin America combine national, regional, and transnational dimensions. The roots, displacements, embeddedness, and relocation of Jewish life are explored, shedding
light on the richness and dilemmas of Jewish Modernity.

This book untangles the pre-Freudian concept of the unconscious in Jewish thought and reveals how the unconscious became part of public discourse in the long nineteenth century. Jewish reception of the unconscious before Freud is a microcosm of Jewish emancipation, telling a multilayered intellectual and cultural history of a minority reappropriating its own tradition in an early instance of self-affirmation.

Bellow's immersion in Yiddish and childhood memories of the vibrant Jewish life on Montreal streets continued to echo in his adult inner ear and permeated almost all of his writing. Much of Bellow's creative power, including the dynamic, comic, and lusty language that became his literary signature, was shaped and informed by the fact that he was Jewish.

No television show in history has depicted the lives of American Jews with as much attention to Jewish rituals, quirks, or culture, as Transparent. And no series has portrayed issues of gender and sexuality alongside Judaism with such nuance and depth. The book explores the show’s depiction of Jewish life, religion, and history, as well as Transparent’s scandals and criticisms and how it fits into and diverges from today’s transgender and queer politics.