How I stopped being a Jew / Shlomo Sand ; translated by David Fernbach.
- Title
- How I stopped being a Jew / Shlomo Sand ; translated by David Fernbach.
- Published by
- London ; New York : Verso, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Description
- 102 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; 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"--
- Uniform title
- Matai ṿe-ekh ḥadalti li-heyot Yehudi. English
- Alternative title
- Matai ṿe-ekh ḥadalti li-heyot Yehudi.
- Subject
- Contents
- The heart of the matter -- Identity is not a hat -- A secular Jewish culture? -- Pain and duration -- Immigration and Judeophobia -- From one Oriental to another -- Empty cart, full cart -- Remember all the victims -- A rest after killing a Turk -- Who is a Jew in Israel? -- Who is a Jew in the Diaspora? -- Exiting an exclusive club.
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- Harvard Library
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