Sander Gilman
By Sander Gilman
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Culture Looking at People Looking at the Jewish Body
**The Jewish Body ** By Melvin Konner Nextbook/Schocken, 304 pages, $22. Given the national uproar about pay-for-play politics, let me begin with a disclaimer: Mel Konner is a colleague of mine at Emory University (where I have now been for the past three years as distinguished professor of the liberal arts and sciences, as well…
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Culture Genetic Diseases? Yes. But Must We Call Them ‘Jewish’?
The extraordinary science of genetics, which is in the process of describing the very nature of our natures, is still in its infancy. The claims made for genetics, a science as narcissistic as any infant, generally outstrip the science’s ability to define or treat genetic illnesses. Yet there is an undeniable power in the notion…
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