At home in exile
Subtitle: why diaspora is good for the Jews
By: Alan Wolfe
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807033135
Subjects: Jewish diaspora; Zionism and Judaism; Jews; Identity
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Diaspora's Destiny; title: Chapter 1. We'll Rot till We Stink; title: Chapter 2. Defenders of Diaspora; title: Chapter 3. The Secularization of Particularism; title: Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Rabbis; title: Chapter 5. The Lost Jews, the Last Jews; title: Chapter 6. Anti-Anti-Semitism; title: Chapter 7. The End of Exilic History?; title: Personal Afterword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index.