Bibliographic record
Abstract
This course examines the multiple and contradictory identities ascribed to and embraced/resisted by Jews in contemporary Western societies. Relying substantially on anti-essentialist theories of identity, the course begins with some foundational assumptions: 1) that identities, including Jewish identity, are not static but constantly in production and subject to contestation and revision, 2) that identities are both culturally constructed and historically embedded, and 3) that the analytic categories of race, gender, sexuality and class articulate in the production of identities. Within this theoretical framework, we will explore practices of Jewish identity construction and trace the role of shifting relations of power in these practices. New forms of Jewish cultural, political and spiritual resistance to cultural erasure will be surveyed as will contemporary expressions of anti-Semitism. Finally, we will explore the implications of new conceptualizations of Jewish identity for anti-racist politics, scholarship and pedagogy and the role for an autonomous Jewish Voice (Boyarin, 1996) in critical social analysis. course readings are drawn from an emerging body of literature associated with The New Jewish Studies (Heller, 1999) which utilizes cultural studies, feminist, postcolonial, postmodern, queer and anti-racism frameworks to rethink the terms in which Jewish identity has been represented. Reflecting an emergent literature, the readings often raise more questions than they answer but will hopefully help generate lively classroom debate and inspire participants to engage in new modes of scholarly inquiry.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.684 | 0.306 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".