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Publication

2014 - Beacon Press, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

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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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