Critical Jewish Studies Now

This volume is a multidisciplinary discussion of the possibility of Jewish critique, addressing the intersection of Jewish Studies and the critical paradigms of feminism, postcolonialism, and postsecularism in this contemporary moment of crisis. Rather than focusing exclusively on a critique of Jewish Studies as a field, the volume explores the tensions between Jewishness and dominant modes of critique. In particular, the volume traces how these dominant modes at times reproduce supersessionist and progress-oriented perspectives, which foreclose possibilities for critique presented by non-linear temporality, only partially representable pasts, and other critical vectors. The contributors describe unexpected resonances between Mizrahi critique and Black thought, between the Palestinian and Jewish questions, and between Jewish lived experience and queer feminist disruptions of traditionalist continuity and cohesion, among others.