The Divided Self
Subtitle: Israel and the Jewish Psyche Today
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: September 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845110543
Subjects: Jewish studies; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Anthropology - Cultural; Judaism - History; Religion / Judaism / History; Identity; Israel and the diaspora; Jewish diaspora; Jews
First sentence: Writing in the January 1912 issue of Ha-Shiloah, the journal edited by the great ideologue of Cultural Zionism, Achad Ha-Am, Joseph Luidor (who would be murdered by Arabs in Jaffa during the riots of 1921) made an explicit and provocative distinction between 'the new Jew', pioneering in the ancient homeland of Palestine, and the Diaspora Jew, who stayed behind in the countries of dispersion.