At home in exile : why diaspora is good for the Jews / Alan Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Alan, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish diaspora.

Zionism and Judaism.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Identity.

United States.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

272 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction: Diaspora's Destiny

Chapter 1 We'll Rot till We Stink

Chapter 2 Defenders of Diaspora

Chapter 3 The Secularization of Particularism

Chapter 4 A Tale of Two Rabbis

Chapter 5 The Lost Jews, the Last Jews

Chapter 6 Anti-Anti-Semitism

Chapter 7 The End of Exilic History?

Personal Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807033135

0807033138

OCLC:

869904745