| Author | Gilad Atzmon |
|---|---|
| Full Title | The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics |
| Binding | Softcover |
| Publisher | Zero Books (2011) |
| Pages | 215 |
| ISBN | 9781846948756 |
| Language | English |
| Short Description | The Wandering Who? is an investigation of Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose of this book is to open up many of these issues for discussion. Since Israel defines itself as a Jewish State, we should ask what the notions of Judaism, Jewishness, Jewish culture and Jewish ideology stand for. Gilad Atzmon examines the tribal aspects embedded in Jewish secular discourse, both Zionist and anti-Zionist; the Holocaust religion; the meaning of history and time within the Jewish political discourse; the anti-Gentile ideologies entangled within different forms of secular Jewish political discourse and even within the Jewish left. He questions what it is that leads Diaspora Jews to identify themselves with Israel and affiliate with its politics. The devastating state of our world affairs raises an immediate demand for a conceptual shift in our intellectual and philosophical attitude towards politics, identity politics and history. |
| Praise | A scholarly and truly monumental work, deeply profound and, of course, controversial. -- Alan Hart, British journalist, in Middle East, ITN's News at 10, BBC's Panorama |
| Table of Contents | Foreword Identity vs. Identifying 1. The Right to Elaborate 2. Credit Crunch or Zio Punch 3. Zionism and Other Marginal Thoughts 4. The Sabra, the Settler and the Diaspora Jew 5. Fagin vs. Einstein 6. Think Tribal, Speak Universal 7. The Dialectic of Negation Unconsciousness is the Discourse of the Goyim 8. One Hundred Years of Jewish Solitude 9. Jewish Unconsciousness is the Discourse of the Goyim 10. The Righteous Jew 11. Sex and Anti-Semitism 12. Eretz Yisrael vs. Galut 13. The Right to Self-Determination: A Fake Exercise in Universalism 14. Milton Friedman Revisited 15. Swindler's List Historicity & Factuality vs. Fantasy & Phantasm 16. Trauma Queen 17. The Wandering Who? 18. From Purim to AIPAC 19. The Book of Esther Connecting the Dots 20. Donations, Think Tanks and Media Outlets 21. Truth, History and Integrity 22. Being in Time Epilogue |
| About the Author | Gilad Atzmon, born in Israel in 1963, is a world-acclaimed jazz saxophonist and composer, a member of the Blockheads and fronts the Orient House Ensemble. He has published numerous political and cultural essays. |
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