At Home in Exile
Why Diaspora is Good for the Jews
Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]
Format: Book
Description: 272 pages ; 24 cm
"The Holocaust followed by Israel's creation constituted a kind of civil religion for Jews, reminding them of their eternal vulnerability while offering salvation in the form of statehood. Memories inevitably change, however, and as the impact of these two titanic events fade, an increasingly number of Judiasm's next generation is starting to reject the particularism associated with both events in favor of a rebirth of the universalism that once characterized life in the diaspora. In this book I argue that this is a positive moment, both for Jews and the non-Jews with whom they live"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Jewish diaspora.
Zionism and Judaism.
Jews -- Identity.
Jews -- United States -- Identity.
Jewish diaspora.
Zionism and Judaism.
Jews -- Identity.
Jews -- United States -- Identity.
ISBN:
9780807033135 (hardback)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War WWII Holocaust Wol | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-256) and index.