Jewish Studies as Oppositional? Or Gettin’ Mighty Lonely Out Here

Sara Horowitz

1994

The proliferation of multicultural courses—not only at the University of Delaware, but across the country—forms a central part of what has come to be termed the “new academy.” By both broadening the range of texts taught and radically altering the theoretical prism which refracts what we presently teach, its proponents hope to enact, through…

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Sara Horowitz

b. 1951

Sara Horowitz grew up in New York City. She is a professor of comparative literature and director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto. She is also editor of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Memoirs and has served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies. Her areas of specialty include gender and memory in Holocaust literature.

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