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What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful 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.In the introduction to the new Transaction edition of his memoir, Goodheart addresses the themes of social justice, Zionism, chosenness, messianism, and alienation from a secular Jewish perspective. The memoir takes the reader from Goodheart’s coming of age in Brooklyn to his higher education at Columbia College in the early fifties and beyond to his varied career as university teacher and literary critic. The memoir provides memorable characterizations of writers whom he knew, among them Lionel Trilling (his teacher), Saul Bellow, Richard Wright (whom he met in Paris), Hannah Arendt, and Philip Rahv.

Langue

en

Version

Broché

Date de sortie initiale

01 janvier 2004

Nombre de pages

286

Illustrations

Non

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Eugene Goodheart

Deuxième auteur

David Gudelunas

Rédacteur en chef

Peter Mayer

Editeur principal

Transaction Publishers

Informations sur le fabricant

Nom du fabricant

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH

Adresse du fabricant

– 80331 – – DE

Adresse électronique du fabricant

[email protected]

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Hauteur de l’emballage

229 mm

Hauteur du produit

22 cm

Largeur d’emballage

152 mm

Largeur du produit

152 mm

Livre d‘étude

Non

Longueur d’emballage

229 mm

Longueur du produit

229 mm

Poids de l’emballage

430 g

Police de caractères extra large

Non

Édition

2

EAN

EAN

9780765805997

Sécurité des produits

Opérateur économique responsable dans l’UE

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Hommes et société

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Anthropologie culturelle

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Langue

Anglais

Religion

Judaïsme