Hey #raceb4race I heard your conference was wonderfully stimulating and wish I could have attended! Is there any room for scholars who work on early modern Jews and antisemitism in your conversation? Asking for a friend (but I am also interested to know).
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Replying to @Eronusis
We can do this by listening, and by systemically ensuring that people from marginalized groups get that necessary representation at conferences, in journals, in the library stacks, and tenure track hires.
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Replying to @TheBardolator
Absolutely. I fully support this move. My concern is the way this might ironically hamper the scholarly conversation, given that pre-modern views of Jews (cf Loomba and Burton). And let’s be a little cautious before we announce the death of antisemitism, ok?
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Replying to @Eronusis
Not the death at all. A synagogue in Duluth was burned only last night. But one only needs to look on faculty pages, journals, conference programs to see that there’s a big imbalance and a huge need to support scholars of colour and their important research.
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Replying to @TheBardolator
ITA. But again, if the scholarly conversation itself is about race, and Jews working on early modern Jews and race are excluded (unless they're non-white), then how can the scholarship itself be inclusive and, from a purely scholarly standpoint, thorough?
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Replying to @Eronusis @TheBardolator
As someone who works on premodern Jews and Race, I really do not understand this question.Are there those who identify as Jews of color who work on race in the early modern period or those who identify as BIPOC who work on Jews as racialized in early modern?
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @TheBardolator
(Outside of BIPOC, how would you define a Jew of Color? Does ashkenazic genealogy negate Latin American heritage? My Mexican husband says yes; his brother says no. & N. african, ethiopian, yemenite, iraqi jews? Victims of racism in Israel. Depends where you live, no?)
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This has already been theorized in Jewish Studies. So I am unsure why we are discussing specifics here. If you are black but an Ashkenazi Jew you are a Jew of color. If you are Mizrahi you are a Jew of color. Etc.
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Much as I love theory, it does not define experience. https://forward.com/opinion/318667/im-a-mizrahi-jew-do-i-count-as-a-person-of-color/ …
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