num_pages: 112
description: Raised by an activist mother, Kim Chernin was taught that the politics of religion are just politics. As her beliefs evolved, she came to understand the necessity of embracing her Jewish heritage while questioning the notion of taking on Jewishness as a role, religion, and qualifying trait, particularly with respect to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The essays in Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial set forth a justifiable criticism of Israel. Chernin explores memory, survivor's guilt, and denial as debilitating to Jewish consciousness, which cannot see criticism of Israel as morally feasible in an anti-Semitic world. In her view, creating true peace requires understanding and believing that the lives of other human beings matter more than Jewish ideology.
language: English
title: Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial: Shekinah, Wagner, and the Politics of the Small
titlecomplete: Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial: Shekinah, Wagner, and the Politics of the Small (The Terra Nova Series)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: North Atlantic Books