For at least 1,500 years, the Jewish people have defined themselves through genealogical practices: according to Jewish law, a person is Jewish simply because he or she is born of a Jewish mother. If ...
Eliza Slavet
Eliza Slavet is the author of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham University Press, 2009); she is currently working on a book on philosemitism. 