Introduction: toward a physiognomic epidemiology of the fetishized Jew -- Feminization and the problem of Jewish persistence -- Tailing the suspect, or the braiding of gender and ethnic difference -- From mohels to Mein Kampf: syphilis and the construction of Jewish identification -- Circumcision and a Jewish woman's identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's failed assimilation -- Going to "alimentary" school: brotstudium, Ludwig feuerbach, and the dietetics of antisemitism -- From rags to risches: on Marx's other Jewish question -- A future without Jews: Max Nordau's pre-Zionist answer to the other Jewish question -- President Schreber and the memoirs of a wandering Jew(ess) -- Walter Benjamin reproducing the scent of the messianic.
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