Jennifer Ring is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, and has taught at Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Modern Political Theory and Contemporary Feminism: A Dialectical Analysis, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Introduction
Hannah Arendt, Judaism, and Gender
Identity Politics and Multiculturalism
Assimilation and Gender
Race and Gender
The Context of Feminist Theory
Structure and Organization of the Book
Chapter 2
The Politics of the Eichmann Controversy
Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem
The Controversy
Chapter 3
Israel and the Holocaust
The Dawning of Reality
The Structure of Discomfort
Attempts at Rescue
Israeli Attitudes Toward the Holocaust Victims
Postwar Negotiations with Germany
The "Kastner Trial"
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Chapter 4
The New York Intellectuals and Eichmann in Jerusalem
The New York Intellectuals and Judaism
The New York Intellectuals and the Holocaust
Postwar Politics and the New Yorkers
The New York Intellectuals and Hannah Arendt
Chapter 5
Race, Gender and Judaism: The Eichmann Controversy as Case Study
Nazis and Sexuality
Racism, Sexism, and Jewish Masculinity
Assimilation as Gendered: The Partisan Review Crowd Revisited
Jewish Women
The Eichmann Controversy, Gender, and Judaism
Chapter 6
Transition
Thinking about Eichmann
The Political Consequences of Thinking
Arendt as Jewish Gadfly
Chapter 7
Biblical and Rabbinic Approaches to Thinking
Thinking Like a Jew
The Bible
Talmud
Midrash
The Middle Ages
Mysticism
Jewish Historical Consciousness
Chapter 8
Greek and Hebrew: The Structure of Thinking
The Structure of Hebrew Thought Compared to Greek
Rabbinic Thought
Scaffolding
Chapter 9
Toward Understanding Arendt as a Jewish Thinker
A Jewish Soul in a German Scholar
The Political Trouble with Philosophy Warm-Up Exercise: An Impressionistic Reading of "Truth and Politics"
Chapter 10
The Pariah and Parvenu in Thinking
Seeing and Hearing
Classical and Jewish Orthodoxy
Socrates as Pariah
The Wordly Results of Thinking
Chapter 11
Jewish Themes in Political Action and History
Judaism and the Space for Political Action
Judaism and Arendt's Concept of History
Community in Dark Times
Chapter 12
Conclusion
Judaism
Gender
Appendix Reviews of Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index