Efraim Sicher is full professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on modern Jewish culture. His most recent book is The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (2017).

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Children of Partition: Inception of the Nation and Birth of the Hero1.1 Birth of the Nation: India/Israel1.2 Homing in and Out of Home1.3 The Rupture of History: Blood Rituals1.4 Parturition as Partition2 Sephardism: Alternate Histories of the Americas2.1 Romancing Sepharad2.2 Sepharad in India2.3 Postcolonial Sepharad2.4 Crypto-Sephardism: Revealing in Order to Conceal2.5 Sephardism in Blue: Finding Home in Multicultural Transnationalism3 Bad Jews and New Men: Re-envisioning Masculinity3.1 Bad Jews on the Rampage3.2 Bad Jews on the Stage3.3 Quiet! Loud Jews: Two Thousand Years3.4 The J-Word3.5 The Wicked Son3.6 New Masculinities4 Written on the Body: Re-envisioning Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Feminist Art4.1 From Rubies to Rebels4.2 Gendering the Jewish Female Body4.3 Performing the Body4.4 Jewish Vaginal Art4.5 Re-envisioning the Text4.6 Total Immersion: Mikveh Art4.7 Signs on the Body4.8 Writing (on) the Body4.9 Erotic and/or Religious?4.10 The Advent of the New Jewess5 Jewish “Bad Girls”: Rebellious Daughters in Contemporary British Jewish Women’s Fiction and Film5.1 Rebellious Bodies5.2 Bad (Jewish) Girls5.3 Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience5.4 Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad and Daughters of Jerusalem5.5 Almost English, or How to Love in Hungarian5.6 Jane Eyre Walks out of Shul: The Governess5.7 Coming Out Jewish and Female6 The “Daughter of Germany”: Desire and Power Relations in the Jewish Imaginary after Auschwitz6.1 Inge: Daughter of Germany6.2 Teutonia: “Negative Symbiosis”6.3 Cristiane: Exorcising Auschwitz6.4 Ilsa: Fetishizing Nazism6.5 Suzanna: The Double6.6 Tessa: The “Bad German”6.7 Epilogue in Berlin: Entangled HistoriesAfterword: Instead of a ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Efraim Sicher is full professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on modern Jewish culture. His most recent book is The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (2017).

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Children of Partition: Inception of the Nation and Birth of the Hero1.1 Birth of the Nation: India/Israel1.2 Homing in and Out of Home1.3 The Rupture of History: Blood Rituals1.4 Parturition as Partition2 Sephardism: Alternate Histories of the Americas2.1 Romancing Sepharad2.2 Sepharad in India2.3 Postcolonial Sepharad2.4 Crypto-Sephardism: Revealing in Order to Conceal2.5 Sephardism in Blue: Finding Home in Multicultural Transnationalism3 Bad Jews and New Men: Re-envisioning Masculinity3.1 Bad Jews on the Rampage3.2 Bad Jews on the Stage3.3 Quiet! Loud Jews: Two Thousand Years3.4 The J-Word3.5 The Wicked Son3.6 New Masculinities4 Written on the Body: Re-envisioning Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Feminist Art4.1 From Rubies to Rebels4.2 Gendering the Jewish Female Body4.3 Performing the Body4.4 Jewish Vaginal Art4.5 Re-envisioning the Text4.6 Total Immersion: Mikveh Art4.7 Signs on the Body4.8 Writing (on) the Body4.9 Erotic and/or Religious?4.10 The Advent of the New Jewess5 Jewish “Bad Girls”: Rebellious Daughters in Contemporary British Jewish Women’s Fiction and Film5.1 Rebellious Bodies5.2 Bad (Jewish) Girls5.3 Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience5.4 Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad and Daughters of Jerusalem5.5 Almost English, or How to Love in Hungarian5.6 Jane Eyre Walks out of Shul: The Governess5.7 Coming Out Jewish and Female6 The “Daughter of Germany”: Desire and Power Relations in the Jewish Imaginary after Auschwitz6.1 Inge: Daughter of Germany6.2 Teutonia: “Negative Symbiosis”6.3 Cristiane: Exorcising Auschwitz6.4 Ilsa: Fetishizing Nazism6.5 Suzanna: The Double6.6 Tessa: The “Bad German”6.7 Epilogue in Berlin: Entangled HistoriesAfterword: Instead of a ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Efraim Sicher is full professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on modern Jewish culture. His most recent book is The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (2017).

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Children of Partition: Inception of the Nation and Birth of the Hero1.1 Birth of the Nation: India/Israel1.2 Homing in and Out of Home1.3 The Rupture of History: Blood Rituals1.4 Parturition as Partition2 Sephardism: Alternate Histories of the Americas2.1 Romancing Sepharad2.2 Sepharad in India2.3 Postcolonial Sepharad2.4 Crypto-Sephardism: Revealing in Order to Conceal2.5 Sephardism in Blue: Finding Home in Multicultural Transnationalism3 Bad Jews and New Men: Re-envisioning Masculinity3.1 Bad Jews on the Rampage3.2 Bad Jews on the Stage3.3 Quiet! Loud Jews: Two Thousand Years3.4 The J-Word3.5 The Wicked Son3.6 New Masculinities4 Written on the Body: Re-envisioning Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Feminist Art4.1 From Rubies to Rebels4.2 Gendering the Jewish Female Body4.3 Performing the Body4.4 Jewish Vaginal Art4.5 Re-envisioning the Text4.6 Total Immersion: Mikveh Art4.7 Signs on the Body4.8 Writing (on) the Body4.9 Erotic and/or Religious?4.10 The Advent of the New Jewess5 Jewish “Bad Girls”: Rebellious Daughters in Contemporary British Jewish Women’s Fiction and Film5.1 Rebellious Bodies5.2 Bad (Jewish) Girls5.3 Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience5.4 Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad and Daughters of Jerusalem5.5 Almost English, or How to Love in Hungarian5.6 Jane Eyre Walks out of Shul: The Governess5.7 Coming Out Jewish and Female6 The “Daughter of Germany”: Desire and Power Relations in the Jewish Imaginary after Auschwitz6.1 Inge: Daughter of Germany6.2 Teutonia: “Negative Symbiosis”6.3 Cristiane: Exorcising Auschwitz6.4 Ilsa: Fetishizing Nazism6.5 Suzanna: The Double6.6 Tessa: The “Bad German”6.7 Epilogue in Berlin: Entangled HistoriesAfterword: Instead of a ConclusionBibliographyIndex