An investigation of Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is ti...
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Jan 18, 2012
Stefan
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Google translated from Swedish: Hitting critique of jewish identity politics. http://www.sourze.se/__10768581.asp
"What's so shocking about a study of the jew identity politics? Does his Jewish-zionist and Jewish-anti-Zionist detractors vain attempts to censor the book proove that he hits the nail right on the head?"
The Wandering Who? - A study of Jewish identity politics
Gilad Atzmon
Zero Books 2011
Jewishness flourishes in exile because of the Jew More...
"What's so shocking about a study of the jew identity politics? Does his Jewish-zionist and Jewish-anti-Zionist detractors vain attempts to censor the book proove that he hits the nail right on the head?"
The Wandering Who? - A study of Jewish identity politics
Gilad Atzmon
Zero Books 2011
Jewishness flourishes in exile because of the Jew More...
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Jan 26, 2012
Alan
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Essential reading for anyone interested in the issues of Zionism, Judaism, Jewish-ness, anti-Semitism, and history in general. (Atzmon maintains that Zionism "developed as a reaction to the emancipation of European Jewry", when it was realized that this "might lead to the disappearance of the Jewish identity". He further maintains that Zionism drew strength from a "created image of emerging anti-Semitism" . . . "a myth of persistent persecution". Hence Her
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Jan 23, 2012
Matthew
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This book is essential reading if one wants to understand the intrinsically irrational and unwaveringly collectivist/racially separatist Jewish (and not just "Zionist") Weltanschauung. I was surprised and glad to see that Atzmon analyzes eclectic works ranging from Otto Weininger's masterpiece "Sex and Character" and the film "A Serious Man" by the Coen bros. As a man who has had the distinct pleasure (or for him, mostly displeasure) of being born and bred in Zion
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Jan 20, 2012
Noushin
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talk about the third rail! Atzmon not only touches it, he just grabs on! I have not been able to stop thinking about this book for days now - there's a lot to unpack and chew on - and digest. It's brutally honest and holds up a mirror that few will want to look in.
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Nov 27, 2011
Steven
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This is an extremely interesting read. Atzmon is rarely boring, a seminal quality for a nonfiction writer. He's unafraid to be forthright, another important quality.
I found some problems with his generalizations about ethnic identity politics. His understanding of racial realities in the United States (and elsewhere) is generally poor and sometimes infuriating.
Atzmon is at his best when deconstructing the idiotic rationales for Zionism and describing just how harmful t More...
I found some problems with his generalizations about ethnic identity politics. His understanding of racial realities in the United States (and elsewhere) is generally poor and sometimes infuriating.
Atzmon is at his best when deconstructing the idiotic rationales for Zionism and describing just how harmful t More...
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Oct 25, 2011
Vickie
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This book was a really interesting scholarly look into identity politics. Though it uses a lot of high theory, it is not inaccessible to the layman.
A must read in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
A must read in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
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