O literaturze żydowskiej w językach nieżydowskich — wprowadzenie

ON JEWISH LITERATURE IN NON-JEWISH LANGUAGES: AN INTRODUCTION The article is an introduction to a special issue of the journal Archiwum Emigracji devoted to Jewish literature written in non-Jewish languages. It briefly presents the sources of multilingualism of Jewish culture and characterises Jewish Diaspora literature as a “minor literature,” for it is: a) dispersed among various national literatures, b) trans-linguistic, c) highly sensitive to the problems of identity, difference, language, space, anti- or allo-Semitism, proper names and the heritage of the Holocaust. The author offers a general definition of this literature as a literary expression of autobiographic (i.e. subjectively expressed) Jewish experience in exile

Menorah Review (No. 47, Fall, 1999)

Physician-Assisted Suicide -- What Price Prejudice? -- The American Synagogue: Now and Then -- Amelek -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist\u27s Corner -- King David -- A Good Life Now and Then -- Noteworthy Book

Human Rights Revisionism and the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism

This article focuses on the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (CPCCA): a self-appointed group of parliamentarians dedicated to extinguishing what it calls “the new antisemitism.” Working from a Gramscian perspective, we identify key discursive strategies in coalition publications and testimony and argue that despite the CPCCA’s pretence to being a forum for liberal-pluralist debate, in fact it is engaged in an ideological reframing of human rights designed to restrict political debate. It does so, paradoxically, by drawing on the language of left-liberalism, which contrasts with recent ideological interventions aiming to secure the priorities of the neo-liberal state

Menorah Review (No. 42, Winter, 1998)

Black-Jewish Relations: Past, Present and Future -- Exploring Exodus: The Common Root for Judaism and Christianity -- Sarah at the Tent Post -- On Studying Mishnah -- Book Listing -- Christianity Without Jeers -- Book Briefing

Editors' Introduction

A brief overview of the current status of the scholarship on Heidegger and contemporary art and of the contributions included in the special issue

Postcolonialism and the study of anti-semitism

In recent years Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) has become a common point of reference for those within postcolonial studies—such as Paul Gilroy, Aamir Mufti, and Michael Rothberg—who wish to explore the historical intersections between racism, fascism, colonialism, and anti-Semitism. “Postcolonialism and the Study of Anti-Semitism” relates Arendt’s comparative thinking to other anticolonial theorists and camp survivors at the end of the Second World War—most prominently, Jean Améry, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, and Jean-Paul Sartre—who all made connections between the history of genocide in Europe and European colonialism. The article then compares this strand of comparative thought with postcolonial theorists of the 1970s and 1980s who, contra Arendt, divide the histories of fascism and colonialism into separate spheres. It also contrasts postcolonial theory with postcolonial literature by exploring the intertwined histories in the fiction of V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Caryl Phillips. Said’s late turn to Jewish exilic thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Erich Auerbach, and Sigmund Freud is also related to this Arendtian comparative project. The main aim of the article is to promote a more open-minded sense of historical connectedness with regard to the histories of racism, fascism, colonialism, and anti-Semitism

Menorah Review (No. 26, Fall, 1992)

Evangelicals and Jews: The Odd Couple\u27s Partnership -- Psalm -- Il Duce and Der Fuhrer -- From Peor\u27s Heights to Crown Heights: The Continuity of Anti-Semitism -- Talmud -- Americanism and Judaism -- Saving Face -- Balancing -- Book Briefing

Disavowal. Distinction and Repetition: Alain Badiou and the Radical Tradition of Antisemitism

My focus in this chapter on the militant French philosopher, Alain Badiou, emerges from my work into the various ways that the Shoah has been incorporated into antisemitic ways of thinking. In what follows, I argue that Badiou’s thoughts on what he terms “uses of the word ‘Jew’”3 in general, as well as on the Shoah in particular, offers a series of continuities with what can be called the radical tradition of antisemitism—a tradition that reaches back at least as far as Bruno Bauer’s anti-emancipationist, and avant le lettre, antisemitic texts of the 1840s. It simultaneously questions the notion of a sharp rupture between what have been termed “classical” and “new” antisemitism. It questions also the place of the Shoah in recent critical thinking within a dialectic of disavowal, dis-tinction, and repetition

Menorah Review (No. 14, Fall, 1988)

Unfamiliar Dimensions of the Holocaust -- Two Giants of the Zionist Enterprise -- Muslim and Jew -- The Documentary Hypothesis Revisited -- Book Briefing