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All the Realities and All the Illusions
Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-27
Karen Grumberg

This review essay considers Adam Newton's book Jewish Studies as Counterlife through the lens of modern Hebrew and comparative literary studies. I begin by reflecting on Newton's articulation of the problems plaguing Jewish studies in the American academy, and on his proposal of a "Jewish Studies to come"–a vision based on relationality, interruption, and sharing that moves beyond disciplines, interdisciplinarity, and the academy itself. Bringing these ideas into conversation with my own experience as a scholar of Hebrew and comparative literature, I outline my ambivalence regarding my positionality within Jewish studies, a field that is by definition concerned with Jewish and Judaic matters and that has privileged history and religious studies over literature and culture. The expansion of the field and the permeability of its boundaries, however, have created the conditions for my own active participation in its institutions, suggesting that Newton's vision has already started to take shape. Newton's book, more a manifesto then a report, does the crucial work of theorizing these shifts and their potential not only for Jewish studies but also, critically, for the humanities more broadly. In posing a new set of questions and bypassing the conventional concerns undergirding attempts to define, understand, and situate Jewish studies, Newton invites "the uncontainable" into Jewish studies and Jewish studies–in all its uncontainability–more fully into the humanities. Jewish Studies as Counterlife makes a radical, viable, and imaginative case for inclusion within Jewish studies as well as of Jewish studies.



中文翻译:

所有的现实和所有的幻想

这篇评论文章认为亚当·牛顿(Adam Newton)的著作《犹太研究》(Jewish Studies as Counterlife)通过现代希伯来语和比较文学研究的镜头。首先,我将反思牛顿对美国学院中犹太研究困扰的问题的清晰表述,以及他提出的“即将来临的犹太研究”的提议-基于关系,中断和共享的愿景,超越了学科,跨学科和跨学科。学院本身。结合我自己作为希伯来语和比较文学学者的经验,将这些思想带入对话中,我概述了我在犹太学领域中的地位的矛盾性,这个领域从定义上讲涉及犹太和犹太事务,并且在历史和宗教研究方面享有特权文学和文化。但是,场的扩展及其边界的渗透性 为我自己积极参与其机构创造了条件,这表明牛顿的愿景已经开始成形。牛顿的书,而不是一份宣言书,是报告的一部重要著作,它对这些变化及其潜力进行了理论分析,不仅适用于犹太研究,而且更重要的是,适用于更广泛的人文学科。牛顿提出了一系列新的问题,并绕开了对定义,理解和安置犹太研究的尝试的传统关注,邀请“无法控制的”进入犹太研究和犹太研究,因为它具有所有的不可遏制性,但要更全面地进入人文学科。对这些变化及其潜力进行理论化的重要工作不仅在犹太研究中,而且更重要的是在更广泛的人文领域。牛顿提出了一系列新的问题,并绕开了对定义,理解和安置犹太研究的尝试的传统关注,邀请“无法控制的”进入犹太研究和犹太研究,因为它具有所有的不可遏制性,但要更全面地进入人文学科。对这些变化及其潜力进行理论化的重要工作不仅在犹太研究中,而且更重要的是在更广泛的人文领域。牛顿提出了一系列新的问题,并绕开了对定义,理解和安置犹太研究的尝试的传统关注,邀请“无法控制的”进入犹太研究和犹太研究,因为它具有所有的不可遏制性,但要更全面地进入人文学科。犹太研究作为抗衡生命,为包含在犹太研究以及犹太研究中提供了一个激进,可行和富于想象力的案例。

更新日期:2021-03-16
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