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Though I do think that there is something about the perception of being Jewish that fosters a sense of critical distance from the sincere and the canonical. For a crass version of this perception, I recall a conversation I had with the historian John Brewer at Caltech in 2007 when, after a particularly witty intervention on my part, he replied, ‘You Jews think you have a monopoly on irony’.
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Lerer, S. Simon Goldhill, What is a Jewish Classicist? Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. viii + 188, ISBN 978-1-350-32253-0, £ 16.99, paperback. Int class trad 30, 240–245 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-022-00628-4
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