Description: This book discusses the multiple intersections between Jewish studies and Israel studies in the twenty-first century. With contributions from an international array of scholars, the volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion of the current state of scholarshi...
Brief description: Carsten Schapkow is L. R. Brammer Jr. presidential professor in history at the University of Oklahoma, where he also serves as the director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism. His most recent book is Role Model and Countermodel: The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German-Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation (Lexington Books).
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"This is a significant and timely volume of essays. Though much has been written on the field of Jewish Studies as an academic discipline, and a fair amount on the more recent cognate area of Israel Studies, this is the first truly wide-ranging discussion and thought-provoking debate regarding their interrelationship. I am sure that this collection will spur a great deal of further academic deliberation." --Norman A. Stillman, Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History, University of Oklahoma
"Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the 21st Century: Intersections and Prospects is an insightful and exciting exploration of the growing interconnection between Israel Studies and Jewish Studies, from a variety of national and transnational perspectives. Remarkably varied in their approaches, disciplines, and perspectives about the ways Jewish Studies and Israel studies--might usefully be brought together, and the ways they might need to be held apart--the essays assembled here provide a rich intellectual mix of provocative questions and intriguing potential answers, which will generate vigorous scholarly conversations in both fields." --Yael S. Aronoff, Director of the Michigan State University Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel and Serling Chair in Israel Studies