Amy K. Milligan of Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices
Based on immense scholarship, Jewish Cultural Studies problematizes the categories of ethnic, cultural, and religious, querying boundary maintenance, community construction, and the creation of distinctive Jewish culture and practice. With astute observation, Bronner probes the conceptual and literal, the rhetorical and ethnographic, and the historical and contemporary in this multifaceted exploration of Jewish culture.
Sander L. Gilman of Stand up Straight! a History of Posture
Simon J. Bronner remains the most elegant and insightful commentator on the complex and convoluted world of Jewish (no matter how defined) cultural production. One of the creators of Jewish cultural studies, his work has always been a beacon for all scholars and readers who are trying to frame questions about the Jews and the modern world, no more so in this age of COVID-19, where the Jews seem to be simultaneously perpetual victims as well as perpetrators. An important book for all scholars of 'out groups,' including the Jews.
Co-Editor of the Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives (Wayne State University Press, 2019) - Haya Bar-Itzhak
In Jewish Cultural Studies, Simon Bronner caps a lifetime of research about Jewish life and lore with an original, provocative cultural perspective that changes the way people think about what Jews do, say, and feel. Breaking new ground for a fertile field of inquiry, it will surely inspire intellectual excitement and provide a basis for the ways that Jews are studied and understood.