Helene Meyers is Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University. She is the author of Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience, also published by SUNY Press, and Reading Michael Chabon.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Jewish Difference, Jewish Reading 2. Feminism and Orthodoxy: Not an Oxymoron3. Queering the Jewish Family 4. The Color of White Jewry5. A Polemical Epilogue: Intermarriage: Jewish Betrayal or Loving Coalitions? Notes Works Cited Index

"Ultimately, Meyers offers not only nuanced readings of many texts, but also a cogent argument about the generative possibilities for American Jewish futurity through an undoing of what constitutes normative understandings of Jewish bodies, families, and relationships." — Journal of Jewish Identities"Identity Papers is an important, thoughtful text that will appeal to those with an interest in postmodern inquiries into multiculturalism, identity theory, and selfhood." — MELUS"This is a sophisticated, nuanced critical study of contemporary Jewish (American) literature … Taking an anthropological approach to Jewish and Judaic cultural expression, Meyers provides probing, subtle analyses … Highly recommended." —CHOICE

Helene Meyers is Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University. She is the author of Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience, also published by SUNY Press, and Reading Michael Chabon.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Jewish Difference, Jewish Reading 2. Feminism and Orthodoxy: Not an Oxymoron3. Queering the Jewish Family 4. The Color of White Jewry5. A Polemical Epilogue: Intermarriage: Jewish Betrayal or Loving Coalitions? Notes Works Cited Index

"Ultimately, Meyers offers not only nuanced readings of many texts, but also a cogent argument about the generative possibilities for American Jewish futurity through an undoing of what constitutes normative understandings of Jewish bodies, families, and relationships." — Journal of Jewish Identities"Identity Papers is an important, thoughtful text that will appeal to those with an interest in postmodern inquiries into multiculturalism, identity theory, and selfhood." — MELUS"This is a sophisticated, nuanced critical study of contemporary Jewish (American) literature … Taking an anthropological approach to Jewish and Judaic cultural expression, Meyers provides probing, subtle analyses … Highly recommended." —CHOICE

Helene Meyers is Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University. She is the author of Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience, also published by SUNY Press, and Reading Michael Chabon.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Jewish Difference, Jewish Reading 2. Feminism and Orthodoxy: Not an Oxymoron3. Queering the Jewish Family 4. The Color of White Jewry5. A Polemical Epilogue: Intermarriage: Jewish Betrayal or Loving Coalitions? Notes Works Cited Index

"Ultimately, Meyers offers not only nuanced readings of many texts, but also a cogent argument about the generative possibilities for American Jewish futurity through an undoing of what constitutes normative understandings of Jewish bodies, families, and relationships." — Journal of Jewish Identities"Identity Papers is an important, thoughtful text that will appeal to those with an interest in postmodern inquiries into multiculturalism, identity theory, and selfhood." — MELUS"This is a sophisticated, nuanced critical study of contemporary Jewish (American) literature … Taking an anthropological approach to Jewish and Judaic cultural expression, Meyers provides probing, subtle analyses … Highly recommended." —CHOICE