Critical Jewish Studies Now

Re’ee Hagay is an interdisciplinary scholar of sound, space, and the formation of difference in Jewish and global South contexts at Vanderbilt University. He teaches in the Anthropology and Jewish Studies departments.Itamar Haritan is an anthropologist of national identity, intergenerational kinship and memory, focusing on alternative genealogical imaginations in Israeli society. He is a doctoral  candidate at Cornell University.

• 1. Introduction: Staying With the Storm: Jewish Critique in a Fragmented World.- Part I. A Jewish Episteme?.- 2. Angelos Novus, a Midrash: Critical Jewish Studies and the University to Come.- 3. Broken Names: Sonofragmentary Reflections on the Cairo Geniza.- 4. Rouminance (with a wāw).- 5. Reonsidering Jewish Feminism’s Political Theology: The Struggle at the Western Wall, a Visual Perspective.- Part II. Jewish Difference in Relation.- 6. The Angel of OTD History.- 7. The Diaspora Politics of Memory: What the Storm Provides.- 8. Angels and Lost Overcoats: Letting Go of Certitude with Christa Wolf.- 9. You Are Not the Same: Primo Levi's Figures of Hybridity.- 10. Society Must Be Upended: Judaism, Race, Revolution.- Part III. Jewish Apocalypses.- 11. Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question.- 12.Israeli Ashkenazi Identity and Mizrahi Critique: A Du Boisian Reading.- 13. Other Angels/Planetary Conversions.