Emily Tamkin

Bad Jews (eBook, ePUB)

A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You can be called a Bad Jewby the community or even yourselfif you don't keep kosher, don't send your children to Hebrew school, or enjoy Christmas music; if your partner isn't Jewish, or you don't call your mother enough. But today, amid fears of rising antisemitism, what makes a Good or Bad Jew is a particularly fraught question.

There is no answer, argues Emily Tamkin. Several million now identify as American Jews; but they don't all identify with one another. American Jewish history, like all Jewish history, has been about transformationand full of discussions, debates and hand-wringing over who is Jewish, how to be Jewish, and what it means to be Jewish.

Bad Jews is a rich, absorbing reflection on 100 years of American Jewish identities and arguments. Tamkin's fascinating, diverse interviews explore the complex story of American Jewishness, and its evolving, conflicting positions, from assimilation, race, and social justice; to politics, Zionism, and Israel. She pinpoints the one truth about Jewish identity: It's always changing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787389809
• Artikelnr.: 66029987

Autorenporträt

Emily Tamkin is Senior Editor, US, at The New Statesman, based in Washington, DC; and the author of The Influence of Soros. Previously a foreign affairs staff writer at Foreign Policy and BuzzFeed News, her work has also appeared in The Economist, The New Republic, Politico, Slate and The Washington Post.