Cynthia Baker’s Jew: A Forum

Marginalia Review of Books
Jul 7, 2017
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A forum on Cynthia Baker's Jew.

Contributors

Introduction by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed

Jew and the Making of the Christian Gaze by Annette Yoshiko Reed

Thinking with Samaritans by Matthew Chalmers

Between Jew and Muslim: Observations on Cynthia Baker’s Jew from the Perspective of Islamic Studies by Michael Pregill

Jewish Identity as a Psychic Wound? by Naomi Seidman

Reading Cynthia Baker’s Jew with James Baldwin by Susannah Heschel

Jew, Christian, and the Judeo-Christian by Shaul Magid

Conclusion of the Forum by Cynthia M. Baker

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