This radical critique, and comparative study, of postmodern Jewish culture, offers innovative readings of major contemporary writers in Israel and the English-speaking diaspora.

Efraim Sicher is a professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. In 2020 he was a research fellow at the Israeli Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely in modern Jewish studies and has edited the short stories of Isaak Babel in Russian, English, and Hebrew. Among his most recent books are Babel in Context (2012); Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "Jew" in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse, 2012); Race Color Identity: Discourses of the "Jew" in the Twenty-First Century (as editor, 2013); The Jew's Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (2017); and Reenvisioning Jewish Identities: Reflections on Contemporary Culture in Israel and the Diaspora (2021).

Introduction 1. All You Need is Love? 2. From Auschwitz to Yavneh 3. Body and Nation 4. Transgression and Return 5. Destroying Israel 6. The Afterlife of Love Coda Bibliography