How I Stopped Being a Jew
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Published on 7. October 2014
112 pages
978-1-78168-698-0 (ISBN)
Description
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a "secular Jew." With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity.
How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the "chosen people" myth and its "holocaust industry." Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what "Jewish" means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.
How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the "chosen people" myth and its "holocaust industry." Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what "Jewish" means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-698-0 (9781781686980)
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Shlomo Sand
How I Stopped Being a Jew
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Person
Shlomo Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the ¿cole des hautes ¿tudes en sciences sociales, in Paris. He currently teaches contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv. His books include The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People, L'Illusion du politique: Georges Sorel et le d¿bat intellectuel 1900, Georges Sorel en son temps, Le XXe si¿cle ¿ l'¿cran and Les Mots et la terre: les intellectuels en Isräl.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1. The Heart of the Matter
- 2. Identity Is Not a Hat
- 3. A Secular Jewish Culture?
- 4. Pain and Duration
- 5. Immigration and Judeophobia
- 6. From One Oriental to Another
- 7. Empty Cart, Full Cart
- 8. Remembering All the Victims
- 9. A Rest After Killing a Turk
- 10. Who Is a Jew in Israel?
- 11. Who Is a Jew in the Diaspora?
- 12. Exiting an Exclusive Club
