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Evan Goldstein is a PhD candidate in Religion & Modernity, specializing in Jewish literature, Jewish thought, and critical theories of religion, race, and sexuality. He is currently completing his dissertation, “Modernism and the Genealogies of Jewish Literature,” which explores how family, reproduction, and lineage structure the question of Jewishness in modernist literature and its afterlives. This study argues that Jewish modernist writers critique the genealogical imagination that underwrites modern constructions of Jewish identity by imagining aesthetic afterlives. Through four case studies (Marcel Proust, Anna Margolin, Bruno Schulz, and Cynthia Ozick) from modernist and contemporary literature, the project explores how Jewish literature registers and resists the racialized, sexualized pressures of modern identity politics. Bringing together Jewish history, modernist studies, queer studies, and critical theory, “Modernism and the Genealogies of Jewish Literature” identifies genealogy as a major theme in modern Jewish literature that exemplifies how literature deconstructs the logic of identity itself.

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