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The Imaginary Jew

The Imaginary Jew

Paperback

Series: Texts and Contexts

JudaismAnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0803268955
ISBN13: 9780803268951
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 201
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.47 Width: 7.11 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through that storm.

Finkielkraut decodes the shifts in anti-Semitism at the end of the Cold War, chronicles the impact of Israel's policies on European Jews, opposes arguments both for and against cultural assimilation, reopens questions about Marx and Judaism, and marks the loss of European Jewish culture through catastrophe, ignorance, and cliché. He notes that those who identified with Israel continued the erasure of European Judaism, forgetting the pangs and glories of Yiddish culture and the legacy of the Diaspora.

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