Contents -- Introduction: The Human Dimension and the Life / Study System -- 1 A Jewish Introduction to the Human Sciences -- 2 Responsive Thinking: Cultural Studies and Jewish Historiography -- 3 Seasons and Lifetimes -- 4 Toward an Anthropology of the Twentieth Century -- 5 Tropes of Home -- 6 A Moment of Danger, a Taste of Death -- 7 Extinction and Difference -- Epilogue -- Notes.