Bücher von Jonathan Boyarin

This series of meditations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict argues that it represents a struggle not as much about land and history as about space, time and memory.

Taking Walter Benjamin's famous image of the Angel of History blown into the future by "a storm from paradise" as his point of departure, Boyarin launches an examination of the role of memory in the study of knowledge, culture and power.

A report that brings Jewishness construed into dialogue with a wide range of thought in contemporary criticism, while linking those themes in turn to the question of planetary crisis. It attempts to put in place words of the late Moishe Fogel, vice president of the Eighth Street Shul.