At home in exile
why diaspora is good for the Jews
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Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27171797M
- ISBN-139780807033135
- ISBN-100807033138
- OCLC Control Number869904745
- OCLC Control Numberathomeinexilewhy0000wolf
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2014009531
Classifications
- DDC909/.04924
- LCCDS134 .W65 2014
Description
"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"--
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