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Triple Silver Yentl (My Elvis)
Deborah Kass
1992
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San Antonio–born artist Deborah Kass is known for work that addresses identity, popular culture, contemporary art, and art history. Her work is found in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Kass is a senior critic in the Yale University painting MFA program and lives in New York.
In my opinion, one cannot understand the development of the Science of Judaism except by taking note of the profound contradictions or, if you will, the unique dialectical tensions present within it…
The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…