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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.

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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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