Confessions of a secular Jew
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Eugene Goodheart ; with a new introduction by the author.
Edition: [2nd ed.]
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Goodheart, Eugene.; Jews -- United States -- Biography.; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a memoir and a speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world." "The legacy bequeathed to Eugene Goodheart was a "progressive" secular Yiddish education which identified Jewish struggles against oppression with working class struggles against exploitation. In the vanguard was the Soviet Union. Goodheart's heroes were Moses, Bar Kochbah, Judah Maccabee, Karl Marx and that strange honorary Jew, Joseph Stalin, whose anti-Semitism would later become known to the world. Confessions of a Secular Jew is the story of Goodheart's disillusionment with the naive, even false, progressivism of that education. At the same time, it is an attempt to rescue and come to grips with the positive remains of that education and heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: Overlook Press, 2001