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The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics

by Gilad Atzmon - £8.99  John Hunt Publishing (Zero Books) (2011)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781846948756 | ISBN 10: 1846948754

An investigation of Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts.
 
Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book is to open up many of these issues for discussion. Since Israel defines itself as the Jewish State, we should ask what the notions of Judaism, Jewishness, Jewish culture and Jewish ideology stand for. Gilad examines the tribal aspects embedded in Jewish secular discourse, both Zionist and anti Zionist; the holocaust religion; the meaning of history and time within the Jewish political discourse; the anti-Gentile ideologies entangled within different forms of secular Jewish political discourse and even within the Jewish left. He questions what it is that leads Diaspora Jews to identify themselves with Israel and affiliate with its politics.
 
The devastating state of our world affairs raises an immediate demand for a conceptual shift in our intellectual and philosophical attitude towards politics, identity politics and history.

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