Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Thinking in Jewish
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1996) 191-200
Keywords:
Jewish philosophy 1945-
;
Jews Identity
;
Yiddish language Research
;
History
;
Yiddish literature History and criticism
;
Language and culture
Abstract:
The following is a reprint of an essay by Jonathan Boyarin that appeared as an appendix to his 1996 book Thinking in Jewish (University of Chicago Press), now with a new foreword by the author. In calling attention to this essay, the editors of "In geveb" encourage a continued rethinking of the futures of Yiddish Studies as a discipline. This essay calls for an analysis of the particular modes of Yiddish culture, its placement within and alongside Western discourse, and its relationship to other contemporary articulations of the “minor” or the “marginal” in the academy. In response to such theorists as Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Boyarin attempts to outline the potential critical interventions embedded in the study of and with Yiddish. Writing “in opposition to the ironic or nostalgic discourse” often attached to the language, Boyarin looks to concepts of Diaspora and postcatastrophe as possible modes for Yiddish science, while at the same time remaining wary of the danger of such concepts becoming universalized “with postmodern magic.”
Note:
In English and Yiddish. Reprinted in "In Geveb; a Journal of Yiddish Studies" (2016) 15 pp. [electronic resource].
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