In Exile is an eloquently written book, even as it covers an impressive amount of dense literature ... [it] is a strong and impressive intellectual exercise, which invites readers to take its findings and mount a weighty political challenge.

Reading Religion

This is a brilliant and profound study of the spatial basis of Judaic thought. Thanks to a constellatory investigation of thinkers such as Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin, she shows how exile produces a form of critical surplus, a distinct form of critical consciousness.

Michael Löwy, Emeritus Research Director, National Centre for Scientific Research, France

From a cultural geographer's appreciation for landscape, emplacement, and subjectivity, Jessica Dubow brilliantly explores the valencies of exile, rootedness, territoriality, and belonging. With eloquence and erudition, she draws on the deepest knowledge of the history of art and aesthetics, literary theory, history of philosophy, and the widest possibilities of Frankfurt-inclined critical theory.

Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

In beautifully evocative prose, the author offers the fresh voice of a cultural geographer to the analysis of secular Jewish thought. In doing so, Dubow gifts us with a genuinely novel approach to the dialectics of secularism and theology. This book opens our understanding of the space that exile can carve out for intellectual creativity.

Scott Spector, Rudolf Mrázek Professor of History and German Studies, University of Michigan, USA