Beyond Determinism: Geography of Jewishness in Nathan Englander’s “Sister Hills” and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

The discourses of modern Jewish statehood have always been entangled with the notion of borders and with the tradition of religiously inspired historical determinism. The Zionist project negotiated between the God-given, predetermined character of the Jewish return to “the Holy Land” and more secula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Filip Boratyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2020-06-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15788