Collection of 18 scholarly essays which focus on the conceptual features of Jewish cultural identity. Essays discuss the conditions underlying commitment to contemporary Jewishness and the cultural and moral obligations this commitment may entail.
*Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the University of California system-wide research facility for the human sciences and theoretical research in the arts. *Professor of Comparative Literature and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute