Tainted Greatness

Nancy A. Harrowitz, Assistant Professor of Italian Literature at Boston University, is the author of Antisemitism, Misogyny, and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao and co-editor (with Barbara Hyams) of Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (Temple).

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Nancy A. Harrowitz Part I: Theology and Religion 1. Tainted Greatness: Luther's Attitudes toward Judaism and Their Historical Reception Carter Lindberg 2. "Familiarly Known as Kittel": the Moral Politics of the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament Alan Rosen 3. Mircea Eliade: Romanian Fascism and the History of Religions in the Untied States Adriana Berger 4. Ungilding Spain's "Golden Age" Shifra Armon Part II: From Psychoanalysis to Philosophy 5. Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism: Tainted Greatness in a Professional Context Sander L. Gilman 6. Lombroso and the Logic of Intolerance Nancy A. Harrowitz 7. Herzl, Wagner, and the Ironies of "True Emancipation" Steven Beller 8. Reading Heidegger: Destruction, Thinking, Return Robert Gibbs 9. Italian Heidegger Affairs Renate Holub Part III: Literature and Theory 10. Gray Zones: Vichy, Maurice Blanchot, and the Problem of Aftereffect Steven Ungar 11. "Jewspapers": Ezra Pound, Poststructuralism, and the Figure of the Jew Paul Morrison 12. De Man and Idolatry William Flesch 13. Tainted Greatness: Depravity and Sacrifice in Jean Genet Edith Wyschogrod Part IV: Jewish Reflections 14. Tainted Artists/Tainted Texts Reflections from the Rabbinic Sources Joseph Polak 15. The Remembrance of Amalek: Tainted Greatness and the Bible Joshua Cohen Afterword Joseph Polak Notes on the Contributors Index