Addresses the relation of Jewish cultural studies to cultural studies as a whole. Jonathan Boyarin is the author of "Storm from Paradise" (Minnesota, 1993) and the editor of "Remapping Memory" (Minnesota, 1994).

Introduction: So what's new? Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Boyarin; Surfacing: thoughts on memory and the ethnographer's self, Benjamin Orlove; Jewish icons: envisioning the self in images of the other, Jack Kugelmass; Situating history and difference: the performance of the term holocaust in public discourse, Vivian M. Patraka; Identities on display: Jewishness and the representational politics of the museum, Johannes von Moltke; Whiteface performances: "race", gender, and Jewish bodies, Ann Pellegrini; Jazz-Jews, jive, and gender: the ethnic politics of jazz argot, Marian Damon; Secret temples, Daniel Itzkovitz; The aromatics of Jewish differences, or Benjamin's allegory of aura, Jay Geller; Beyond Deleuze and Guattari: Hebrew and Yiddish modernism in the age of privileged difference, Chana Kronfeld; Lawless attachments, one-night stands: the sexual politics of the Hebrew-Yiddish language war, Naomi Seidman; Masada or Yavneh? gender and the arts of Jewish resistance, Daniel Boyarin; Exploding identities: notes on ethnicity and literary history, Ammiel Alcalay; the holy foreskin: or, money relics and Judeo-Christianity, Marc Shell; On the (under) cutting edge: does Jewish memory need sharpening? Gil Anidjar.