Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
by Abigail Pogrebin
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Author: Abigail PogrebinEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-25
ISBN: 0767916123
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Broadway
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Book Review: Everything you always wanted to know about how Jews think...But were afraid to ask.
Summary: 5 Stars
Sarah Jessica Parker--AN IMPORTANT CASE STUDY TO READ IN THIS FANTASTIC BOOK for those interested in the: "Jewish Question?"
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"If I watch a television show about somebody and there's a Jew on there -- I don't mean fiction, I mean reality -- and there's a guy on there named Goldfarb and he's a jackass, I'm like, 'You're bad for the Jews.'
"Matthew not only identifies as a Jew. His perspective in life has very much to do with Hitler and the persecution of Jews.
I ask for her reaction to Nat Hentoff's comment, made a few months after 9/11, that he can imagine one day hearing over a loudspeaker, "All Jews gather in Times Square." "I live with someone who can imagine that, I think," Parker says. "So I'm inclined to be able to imagine it myself. You often become the person you're married to or you live with; you just do. And I'm pretty influenced by his thinking often anyway. It wasn't so long ago that the Holocaust happened. It really did happen very recently. And so many denied it and couldn't bear the thought of it or weren't interested in the plight. So, yes; it's not beyond imagining. "
I ask her if she notices which of her friends are Jewish. "If Matthew and I are with friends who are Jewish, you just feel something you can't describe-like trying to describe a color; you can't. It's just commonality -- like, 'Oh yeah, we're with our people.'
'Wow, you look so pretty,' I always joke -- if I know them really well -- 'You're an anti-Semite!' Because I just feel it's a little stab at the Jews.
She says the crisis in Israel makes them both feel more Jewish. "It makes you identify. I feel much more strongly about the situation there and I feel foolish about it too because I don't know the history. But I do know that I feel defensive when people say, 'How can Israel go in with tanks?'
FOLKS, THIS BOOK IS A GREAT READ FOR: Everything you always wanted to know about how Jews think...But were afraid to ask.
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