The other Jewish question : identifying the Jew and making sense of modernity / Jay Geller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.