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Article: Coring the Center: Reflections on the "Jewish Periphery".(Review)
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- June 22, 1999
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The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa. By MILTON SHAIN. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
In August, 1996 I had the chance to join with colleagues from around the globe in a conference hosted by the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In the opening lecture, Sander Gilman challenged participants to consider how the field of Jewish Studies might change now that we have entered, in his words, the era of post-Zionism. Now was the time, he suggested, to abandon the core-periphery model which has played such an important role in Jewish Studies. The model, whether it be constructed with Torah as the core ...