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The author of Revolution Until Victory explores the diverse ways in which Jews have changed themselves to become part of modern society and, at the same time, influenced those societies they entered, in a study of the unique character of Jewish identity. 15,000 first printing.
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Barry Rubin is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior fellow at Bar-Ilan University's BESA Center, Hebrew University's Harry Truman Institute, and Haifa University's Jewish-Arab Center.
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Historian Rubin (Revolution Until Victory) has written an insightful and provocative mix of analysis and history concerning the perpetual issue of Jewish assimilation. He concentrates on the ideas and actions of "leading intellectual and cultural figures," starting when the French Revolution and the Enlightenment appeared to give Jews a way to shed identity without conversion to the dominant religion. He follows Freud and Koestler, Brandeis and Lippman, and points out the contradictions exemplified by artists like Woody Allen, who is preoccupied by the Jewish background he rejects. The author offers interesting takes on the Jewish embrace of radical causes and victimized groups. He concludes that assimilation has both damaged Jewry and produced creative and professional success for Jews in Europe and America. Some quibbles: the book's tone is detached, it ignores recent movements of Jewish renewal in America and it barely examines the question of Jewish identity in Israel, where Rubin teaches at Tel Aviv University.
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- PublisherCrown
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 081292293X
- ISBN 13 9780812922936
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages333
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