| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 204 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"An Arthur Kurzweil book." -- T.p. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Are we actors with masks? : our ability to assimilate has been too effective for our own good -- Are we shattered into pieces? : despite what anti-semites have said, our infighting and historical circumstances have never allowed unity nor a unified leadership -- Are we a nation or a religion? : our people are not a religion, nor a nation, nor an ethnic group, nor a race -- Do we have our own set of character traits? : yes, but sometimes we use them and sometimes we abuse them -- Is money our god? : the slander, lies, and misunderstandings regarding Jews and money -- Why do we want to save the world? : exploring the Jewish messiah complex -- Are we excessively warm or excessively cold? : the seemingly contradictory phenomena of Jewish emotionalism and intellectualism -- Why are our people involved in idolatry? : our theocentric nature and our temptation to create and worship idols -- What is our role in the world? : our "chosen" status demands that we be thr priests to the world -- How does our Jewishness influence our thinking process? : Marx, Freud, Einstein, and the Jewish search for unifying principles -- How does anti-semitism affect other people? : the correlation between a country's health and how well it treats its Jews -- What will become of the Jewish people? |
| Language |
Translated from the Hebrew. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Attitudes.
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Jews -- Social conditions.
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| ISBN |
0787979155 alkaline paper |
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9780787979157 alkaline paper |
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