CORONADO, California (Press Release)–What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel that have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences?
Writing on the eve of the Holocaust, Freud proposed that Jewishness is constituted by the inheritance of ancestral memories; thus, regardless of any attempts to repress, suppress, or repudiate Jewishness, Jews will remain Jewish and Judaism will survive. These questions are at the heart of Eliza Slavet’s new book, Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham U Press, Sept 2009) which she will discuss at 10:30 a.m. in the Winn Room of the Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado.
Eliza Slavet is Lecturer and Visiting Scholar in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego, and Lecturer at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. She received a PhD in Literature from the University of California, San Diego; an MM in Oboe Performance from Yale School of Music; and a BA in English from Yale University.
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Preceding provided by the Agency for Jewish Education in San Diego