This book is a multidisciplinary discussion of the possibility of Jewish critique, addressing intersections between Jewish Studies and critical paradigms in this moment of crisis. It traces how dominant modes of critique at times reproduce supersessionist and progress-oriented perspectives that foreclose critical possibilities offered by non-linear temporalities and only partially representable pasts. The contributors explore unexpected resonances between Mizrahi critique and Black thought, between the Palestinian and Jewish questions, and between Jewish practice and queer disruptions of traditionalist continuity, among others.

Re’ee Hagay is an interdisciplinary scholar of sound, space, and the formation of difference in Jewish and global South contexts at Vanderbilt University. He teaches in the Anthropology and Jewish Studies departments.

Itamar Haritan is an anthropologist of national identity, intergenerational kinship and memory, focusing on alternative genealogical imaginations in Israeli society. He is a doctoral  candidate at Cornell University.