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How I Stopped Being A Jew eBook

by Shlomo Sand
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Publisher: VERSO, October of 2014 ‧
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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

by Shlomo Sand

Property Description
ISBN: 9781781686980
Publisher: VERSO
Release Date: October of 2014
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > History > General History
eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Asia, Pacific and Oceania
EAN: 9781781686980
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shlomo Sand

Shlomo Sand professor emérito da Universidade de Telavive, é historiador. Nasceu em 1948, na Áustria, numa família de judeus polacos sobreviventes do Holocausto. O pai ganhou aversão aos rabis depois de negado à avó materna um lugar na primeira fila da sinagoga, no funeral do avô, por falta de dinheiro para o pagar. Resultou daí uma atitude política de esquerda transmitida ao filho. Tendo sido militante comunista, Shlomo Sand abandonou a atividade política, desiludido, no início da década de 1970.

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