How does one think in Jewish? What does it mean to speak in English ofYiddish as Jewish as a certain intermediary generation of immigrants andchildren of immigr... » 

How does one think in Jewish? What does it mean to speak in English ofYiddish as Jewish as a certain intermediary generation of immigrants andchildren of immigrants from Jewish Eastern Europe has done? A fascination withthis question prompted Jonathan Boyarin one of Americas most originalthinkers in critical theory and Jewish ethnography to offer the unexpectedJewish perspective on the vexed issue of identity politics presented here.Boyarins essays explore the ways in which a Jewish or more particularlyYiddish idiom complicates the question of identity. Ranging from explorationsof a Lower East Side synagogue to Fichtes and Derridas contrasting notions ofthe relation between the Jews and the idea of Europe from the LubavitchHasidim to accounts of selfmaking by Judith Butler and Charles TaylorThinking in Jewish will be indispensable reading for students of criticaltheory cultural studies and Jewish studies. «