Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity

Contents

contents list of illustrations / vii introduction / 1 1. Diaspora and Homeland / 18 Erich S. Gruen 2. Coming to Terms with Exile / 47 Howard Wettstein 3. A Politics and Poetics of Diaspora: Heine’s “Hebräische Melodien” / 60 Bluma Goldstein 4. Dancing at Two Weddings: Mazel between Exile and Diaspora / 78 Murray Baumgarten 5. Portraiture and Assimilation in Vienna: The Case of Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat / 113 Catherine M. Soussloff 6. A Different Road to Modernity: Jewish Identity in the Arab World / 150 Daniel J. Schroeter 7. Remaking Jewish Identity in France / 164 Irwin Wall 8. “This Is Not What I Want”: Holocaust Testimony, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity / 191 Diane L. Wolf vi contents 9. The Ideology of Affliction: Reconsidering the Adversity Thesis / 221 Bernard Susser 10. Jewish Identity Writ Small: The Everyday Experience of Baalot Teshuvah / 234 Louise E. Tallen 11. Contesting Identities in Jewish Philanthropy / 253 Kerri P. Steinberg list of contributors / 279 index / 281 ...