Jewish Studies, the first volume in a groundbreaking new series, Key Words in Jewish Studies, introduces the basic approach of the series by organizing discussion around key concepts in the field that have emerged over the last two centuries: history and science, race and religion, self and community, identity and memory. The book is oriented by contemporary critical theory, especially feminist and postcolonial studies, and the multidisciplinary approaches of cultural studies.

Foreword, by the Series Editors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: To What May This Be Likened?
   Studying Jews
   Terms of Debate and State of the Question
   In a New Key

1 Terms of Debate
   Opening Moves
   Jewish Science
   Others Studying, Other Jews

2 State of the Question
   Jewish Studies after Auschwitz
   The Boundaries of Ethnic Identity
   Building Memories
   Understanding Again

3 In a New Key
   Cast of Characters
   Points of Departure

Notes
Index