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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Kimberly A. Arkin In 2004 a French Jewish student union ran an ad against anti-Semitism using defaced images of Jesus and Mary. Denounced by an antiracist organization affiliated with Jewish interests, the ad was immediately pulled. Why? While the union intended the campaign to be provocative...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 521–566.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Stoler, Sylvia Yanagisako, Mayfair Yang, and Mei Zhan. My thanks also to Richard I. Cohen, Rotem Geva, David Goldberg, Susanna Hecht, Tom Mertes, Ben Orlove, Grzegorz Sokol, Laura Surwit, and Irvin Ungar. In addition, I am grateful to the Center for Jewish...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 199–220.
Published: 01 May 2018
... colonial regime within the territories Israel occupied in 1967—is a construct disseminated by liberal Zionists that conceals the intricate connection between race and space produced by the Jewish state. 1 This “good Israel”/“bad Israel” framing does not hold water once one acknowledges...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 515–544.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Schrag, Carl, and Steve Rodan. 1994 . Closer than you think. Jerusalem Post Magazine , 29 July, 11 . Sedan, Gil. 1999 . Moroccan Jews mourn death of king. Jewish News of Greater Phoenix (available on-line at www.jewishaz.com/index.shtml ),30 July. Seliktar, Ofira. 1998 . The peace dividend...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 January 2005
...), and the Israel Museum’s collection is seen as an expression of the unity of the Jewish people, “a nation newly come together from all parts of the world” (Hendy 1968: 9).1 The objects, in this formulation, are metonyms of the people: the museum...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 433–445.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Territories). Israeli Palestinians is used here as a more convenient term, although it remains an open question whether their Israeliness constitutes a cultural identity as well. 436 half of Israel’s Jewish population is from Arab countries, and that these people Public Culture...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 431–449.
Published: 01 September 1993
... . London: Allen & Unwin. Foucault , Michel . 1979 . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . New York: Vintage. Ginsberg , Louis . ( 1928 ) 1968 . The Legends of the Jews . Vol. 3 . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. Gombrich , Richard . 1984...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 May 2002
... . Religious observance and desired fertility among Jewish women in Israel. In Papers in Jewish demography, 1993: In memory of U. O. Schmelz , edited by Sergio DellaPergola and Judith Even. Jerusalem: Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bloch, Maurice. 1992...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 403–430.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Walking with a group of Palestinian and Jewish guests, we silently crossed the iron gate of the luxurious gated community. Slowly, we traversed the premises toward the western viewpoint overlooking the Jaffa port. Enjoying the breathtaking sunset, we sat on the bench, still thrilled by the relative...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 65–84.
Published: 01 January 2013
... twelve thousand people, called Bluefield, the railroad center for the southern West Virginia coalfields and the heart of the Appalachian Bible Belt. There was no Jewish community, or at least none with which they identified, and, in what was their only significant gesture toward assimilation, my...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... that their work is especially concentrated. Setting aside their narrative of biblical references and exclusive Jewish homeland, Elad and Ateret Cohanim are real-estate developers that deploy settler-colonial tactics of intimidation, bribery, forging of documents, and land theft to settle Jewish Israelis...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 47–74.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., the name of an outspoken Jewish survivor of Auschwitz-Monowitz and the son of Otto Michel (a victim of Auschwitz), whose cigar factory near Mannheim the Nazis had seized in 1939. 91 Remarkably, Philip Morris was exploring different ways to enlist Jewish community leaders who might be sympathetic...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 513–532.
Published: 01 September 2015
...? Judith R. Walkowitz (JRW): I was born in 1945 and spent my first nine years in the North Bronx. In 1954 my family was part of a Jewish middle-class population that migrated from the outer boroughs to the suburbs of Long Island. We moved to Baldwin, a Catholic and Protestant enclave; by the time I got...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 239–273.
Published: 01 January 2002
... is there any- thing comparable to Jewish Messianism, which, combining desire and dream, confronted almost without mediation the problem of the absolute and its promises, pursuing the latter to its most extreme consequences in tragedy and despair...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 17–45.
Published: 01 January 2024
... from the metropole. A case in point is Jewish settlers’ unsystematic responses to climate in Palestine, which coincided with British late colonial discourse on tropical climate and the Olgyays’ experimentation at Princeton. Designers’ transnational mobility, even from peripheral countries...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 583–603.
Published: 01 September 2010
...- tions as a slur and slander in everyday speech, used by children fighting over toys, by soccer fans cursing the rival team in graffiti. “Jewish” (z·ydowski, po z·ydowsku) means suspect, devious, sinister, unpleasant, or badly done; it can also mean inside...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 201–212.
Published: 01 January 1993
... Yet today we hardly remember the essay published by Mendelsohn. In the shadow of Kant, whom Mendelsohn himself had called the “everything-smasher,” this first Jewish intellectual of European scope (besides Spinoza) and his essay remain...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 451–455.
Published: 01 September 1993
... example of the highly visible ways in which Jewish discourse over many centuries has sustained Jewishness, created a Jewish historic- ity, and shaped the conditions for its continued relevance. These are, of course, not Don Handelman and Lea...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., Steven E. 2007. Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Baldwin, Davarian L. 2007. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migra- tion, and Black Urban Migration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Bunk, Brian D...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 353–365.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Hanina and Al Ram. Photograph by author. Just five years after the wall came a different kind of infrastructure. Whereas the wall was meant to separate, the new light rail system was meant to move people. It connected predominantly Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem to the city center, bringing...
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