Minor Perspectives on Modernity beyond Europe

Yael Attia M.A.; Dr. Jonathan Hirsch; Kathleen Samson M.A.

doi:10.5771/9783956509728

Summary

Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies are often thought to be at odds. Both disciplines intensively debate modernity, troubling its universalist claims and showing the contradictory nature of its promises. The call to provincialize Europe allows scholars from both disciplines to think, articulate and represent modern experiences beyond Europe and engage critically with traditions of modernity across disciplines, temporalities and geographies. Mapping Sephardi and other minor perspectives on modernity from across the globe in this volume, we are presenting fascinating cases and exploring new terrain where a fruitful encounter between Jewish and Postcolonial Studies can happen With contributions byYael Attia | Priyam Goswami Choudhury | Jonathan Hirsch | Yonathan Listik | Anthony Obst | Kathleen Samson | Alina Schittenhelm | Željka Oparnica | Rachel Pafe

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95650-971-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95650-972-8
Publisher: Ergon, Baden-Baden
Series: Gesellschaften und Kulturen des sephardischen Judentums I Sephardic Societies and Cultures
Volume: 1
Language: English
Pages: 206
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
Introduction: Methodological positioning No access Pages 9 - 26 Yael Attia, Jonathan Hirsch, Kathleen Samson
1. Judeo-Spanish Pasts and Futures: the Question of Language in Sarajevo Sephardi Political Thought between 1900-193 No access Pages 29 - 52 Željka Oparnica
2. “Pierce a diamond first”: Negotiating Representations with Kabir’s “Modern” Translations No access Pages 53 - 70 Priyam Goswami Choudhury
3. From minor literature to linguistic reality – contesting hegemonic Hebrew in Sara Shilo’s Shum Gamadim Lo Yavo’u No access Pages 71 - 92 Alina Lior Schittenhelm
1. Egyptian Semitism and the quest for Arab-Jewish scholarship in interwar Egypt No access Pages 95 - 116 Jonathan Hirsch
2. “A Better Life for All”? Modernity’s Contradictory Promise in Postapartheid South Africa No access Pages 117 - 134 Kathleen Samson
3. Judeo-Christianity, Jewish Barbarism and the Necessity to Decolonize Jewishness No access Pages 135 - 150 Yonathan Listik
1. Give a little salt to these strangers: Albert Memmi and Fictions of Jewish Barbarism No access Pages 153 - 166 Rachel Pafe
2. Modern Conjunctures: W. E. B. Du Bois and Berlin No access Pages 167 - 190 Anthony Obst
3. Jewish Studies, Postcolonial Studies: An Encounter with Albert Memmi No access Pages 191 - 204 Yael Attia
Index of Names No access Pages 205 - 206