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British Jews and Nationalism
From Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson: “The UK was the only country in the world, during the 1960s and 1970s, where high-level work was undertaken,in separate channels, on the nature and origins of nationalism in a general sense, by four influential Jewish intellectuals–the conservative historian Elie Kedourie, the Enlightenment-liberal philosopher and sociologist Ernest Gellner, the then…
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R.I.P. Zygmunt Bauman
He’s not a literary author, but has been a enormous influence for critics and authors in the world of Anglo-Jewish writing (and far beyond–I just bought a book of his in Phoenix, AZ) that it is worth linking to him here. Bauman Institute Wikipedia Page (apparently there are issues with it. Can you fix them?)…
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A Triumph of Dylanology
My professor Bryan Cheyette aside from being a literary scholar is a Dylanologist. In a personal sense, Dylan is a connection–when I first began to think about doing my doctorate, I spent several amazing times talking through ideas with Christopher Ricks, Dr. Cheyette names “Dylanologist-in-Chief.” After the topics that Dr. Ricks and I were discussing didn’t…
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New Book: Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational
Really interested in seeing this. Jay Howard Geller and Leslie Morris, Editors As German Jews emigrated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany—and Berlin in particular—attracted both secular and religious Jewish…
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CFP: The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures
CFP for a Symposium, co-sponsored by the AHRC BJ:CC Network (Bangor University and the University of Winchester) and ‘Identities’ at the University of Reading, to be held at the University of Reading on 4th November, 2016: Deadline for submissions: Saturday, October 1, 2016 The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures Over the past…
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Academic News for Jeremy (founder of this blog)
I am very excited to tell everyone I know that for the next year I will be Visiting Scholar at Boston University in The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. These last two years have been a period of transition (never Van Morrison‘s best record), and this gives me a real chance to have an…
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The Promised Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British-Jewish Culture
The Promised Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British-Jewish Culture.
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All Possible Humanities Dissertations Considered as Single Tweets
All Possible Humanities Dissertations Considered as Single Tweets. via All Possible Humanities Dissertations Considered as Single Tweets.
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All Possible Humanities Dissertations Considered as Single Tweets
Stephen Burt’s article in the New Yorker summarizing humanities dissertations as tweets. I am not sure he has covered everything. Would be good to hear others. For a start, I am not sure I see my topic here. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/all-possible-humanities-dissertations-considered-as-single-tweets?intcid=mod-latest
