January 29, 1999

The New Jewish Studies: Defying Tradition and Easy Categorization

By SCOTT HELLER

Conservatives scoff -- and the field grows -- as biblical emphasis is replaced by analysis of gender, ethnicity, and culture

It was meant to be a nice after-dinner speech, not much more, marking Israel's 50th anniversary. When a scheduled speaker dropped out, organizers of the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies invited Hava Tirosh-Samuelson to talk about the field.

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