Storm from paradise : the politics of Jewish memory

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Storm from paradise : the politics of Jewish memory

Jonathan Boyarin

University of Minnesota Press, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-158) and index

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ISBN 9780816620944

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Based on varied, cross-disciplinary readings, this text argues that the Jewish experience with being the "other" and, conversely and recently, with "othering" is indeed relevant to theorists of contemporary culture. Taking Walter Benjamin's famous image of the Angel of History blown into the future by "a storm from paradise" as his point of departure, Boyarin launches an examination of the role of memory in the study of knowledge, culture and power; the complicated relationship between space and time in the constitution of memory and identity; and the dynamics of "othering" in 20th-century culture within the context of a long tradition of Jewish writings on the subject.

Table of Contents

  • The Lower East Side: a place of forgetting
  • Europe's Indian, America's Jew: Modiano and Vizenor
  • the former Hotel Moderne - between Walter Benjamin and Polish Jews in Paris
  • Jewish ethnography and the question of the Book
  • the other within and the other without
  • the impossible international
  • Palestine and Jewish history.
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:pbk ISBN 9780816620951

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Storm from Paradise was first published in 1992. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Usefully complicating common sense understandings of history, catastrophe, loss, otherness, and possibility through reflections on contemporary Jewishness, Boyarin draws on Benjamins's famous image of the Angel of History blown into the future by a "storm from paradise" to constantly interrogate and recuperate the past, "without pretending for long that we can recoup its plentitude". The book's seven thoughtful essays are at times deliberately intangible but always worth reading. An important book for the rethinking of the relevance of Jewishness to anthropology and cultural studies." -Religious Studies Review "An essay in the richest sense of that term, inspired by and modeled on Walter Benjamin's essays. Based on varied, diverse, and abundantly cross-disciplinary readings, it moves and builds, questions and interrogates, and ultimately convinces us that the Jewish experience with being the 'other' and, conversely and recently, with 'othering' is indeed relevant to theorists of contemporary culture." -Marianne Hirsch Jonathan Boyarin is the author of Palestine and Jewish History, and co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin, of Jews and Other Differences and Powers of Diaspora.

Table of Contents

  • The Lower East Side: a place of forgetting
  • Europe's Indian, America's Jew: Modiano and Vizenor
  • the former Hotel Moderne - between Walter Benjamin and Polish Jews in Paris
  • Jewish ethnography and the question of the Book
  • the other within and the other without
  • the impossible international
  • Palestine and Jewish history.

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