Table of Contents
A note on transliteration
List of illustrations
Introduction
Part One: The Other Body and Spaces for Matter
Chapter One. Locating historically the Jew’s body between display and transformation
Chapter Two. The power of meat: defining ethnicity and masculinity in Gogol
Chapter Three. Valued bodies and spaces: cross-religious encounters in Dostoevsky
Chapter Four. Intimate spaces: the modern Jewess in the boudoir in Chekhov and Bely
Chapter Five. Animal advocacy and ritual murder trials
Chapter Six. Aphids and other undesirables: the predatory Jew versus Soviet art
Chapter Seven. Abject bodies: tactility, dissection, and body rites in postmodernist fiction
Part Two: Re/active Embodiments and a Sense of Things
Chapter Eight. Women writers inventing exotic origins
Chapter Nine. Strange ancestors in the house and in the basement
Chapter Ten. On feeding the family: constructing Jewishness through nurture
Chapter Eleven. Materiality of smell and constructs of embodied memory
Chapter Twelve. “An edible chronotope”: in search of Jewish heritage food
Conclusion: The Power of Bodies and Senses that Matter
Bibliography
Index