Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, is the author of Adrift in the Old World: The Psychological Pilgrimage of Washington Irving.
Shelley Fisher Fishkin is professor of American Studies and
English at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of
Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices and From
Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America, and
co-editor of Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist
Criticism.
"A brave exploration of the link between Jewishness and
scholarship, Jewishness and feminism, Jewishness and the passion
for the word. A fascinating collection."--Erica Jong
"What is fresh and exhilarating about this volume is the
articulation of a wide area of very personal views on Jewish
identity that are thoughtful, interesting, often moving and
inspiring. Most interestingly, they emanate from scholars in
secular fields who are uninterested in pleading a cause, staking a
claim, organizing a movement, or promoting an agenda, yet whose
emotional ties to Jewish peoplehood, values, and ideals are
pronounced and eminently worth discovering."--Rabbi Stanley M.
Wagner, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver
"Within living memory, Jewish access to the American academy was
sharply limited. Jewish students at many American universities and
colleges were restricted to a small quota, and faculties routinely
rejected well-qualified applicants because they were Jewish. People
of the Book is a remarkable collection of essays by professors well
aware of this legacy but no longer silenced by the old constraints.
The authors bear witness, in a wide range of voices, to the complex
self-awareness of Jewish academics. Ironic, enraged, brooding,
learned, anxious, and often excruciatingly funny, these meditations
record an extraordinary array of responses to the perils and
pleasures of contemporary Jewish life."
--Stephen Greenblatt, University of California, Berkeley
"A brave exploration of the link between Jewishness and
scholarship, Jewishness and feminism, Jewishness and the passion
for the word. A fascinating collection."--Erica Jong
"What is fresh and exhilarating about this volume is the
articulation of a wide area of very personal views on Jewish
identity that are thoughtful, interesting, often moving and
inspiring. Most interestingly, they emanate from scholars in
secular fields who are uninterested in pleading a cause, staking a
claim, organizing a movement, or promoting an agenda, yet whose
emotional ties to Jewish peoplehood, values, and ideals are
pronounced and eminently worth discovering."--Rabbi Stanley M.
Wagner, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver
"Within living memory, Jewish access to the American academy was
sharply limited. Jewish students at many American universities and
colleges were restricted to a small quota, and faculties routinely
rejected well-qualified applicants because they were Jewish.
People of the Book is a remarkable collection of essays by
professors well aware of this legacy but no longer silenced by the
old constraints. The authors bear witness, in a wide range of
voices, to the complex self-awareness of Jewish academics. Ironic,
enraged, brooding, learned, anxious, and often excruciatingly
funny, these meditations record an extraordinary array of responses
to the perils and pleasures of contemporary Jewish life."
--Stephen Greenblatt, University of California, Berkeley
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