Writing Jewish

Ruth Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Winchester, UK and Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute Research Centre at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published a number of articles on Jewish literature and is the author of Early Modern Hermaphrodites: Sex and Other Stories and co-editor of At The Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period.

• 1. Preface: 'No Place Like Home'2. British-Jewish Writing Today3. 'Two Thousand Years of Memory': Memory and British-Jewish Identity4. 'An Impossible Task': Remembering the Holocaust5. 'Rootsie-tootsie': (Re)locating Jews in Contemporary Britain6. Belonging and Division: British-Jewish Reflections on Israel7. Barmitzvahs and Balls: British-Jewish Masculinities8. 'A Vortex of Contradictory Forces': British-Jewish Women9. Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jewish: Contemporary IdentitiesAfterwordBibliographyIndex.