{"product_id":"a-traveling-homeland-daniel-boyarin-9780812247244","title":"A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003eA word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, \"diaspora\" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning for an ancestral home. But as Daniel Boyarin writes, diaspora may be more constructively construed as a form of cultural hybridity or a mode of analysis. In \u003ci\u003eA Traveling Homeland, \u003c\/i\u003e he makes the case that a shared homeland or past and traumatic dissociation are not necessary conditions for diaspora and that Jews carry their homeland with them in diaspora, in the form of textual, interpretive communities built around talmudic study. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Boyarin, the Babylonian Talmud is a diasporist manifesto, a text that produces and defines the practices that constitute Jewish diasporic identity. Boyarin examines the ways the Babylonian Talmud imagines its own community and sense of homeland, and he shows how talmudic commentaries from the medieval and early modern periods also produce a doubled cultural identity. He links the ongoing productivity of this bifocal cultural vision to the nature of the book: as the physical text moved between different times and places, the methods of its study developed through contact with surrounding cultures. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eA Traveling Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e envisions talmudic study as the center of a shared Jewish identity and a distinctive feature of the Jewish diaspora that defines it as a thing apart from other cultural migrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Boyarin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812247248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812247244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2015","brand":"Daniel Boyarin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926362882303,"sku":"9780812247244","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4575c7b8-df17-4ba9-9803-c8ab3c44b0c9.jpg?v=1681082657","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-traveling-homeland-daniel-boyarin-9780812247244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}