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Published on: 2000-09-19
Released on: 2000-09-19
Original language: English

It's happening fast: The population of half-Jews in America is well on its way to surpassing the population of full Jews. And with this population shift has come a revolutionary transformation of what it means to be half-Jewish. Sure, some people say that you are either Jewish or not, that there's nothing in between--but the authors emphatically disagree. They say half-Jews are a unique subculture of people who draw from both sides of their heritage and synthesize their cultural halves into a remarkable new identity.         The Half-Jewish Book celebrates this unique identity that until now has been ignored, maligned, and misunderstood. There's half-Jewish humor. Half-Jewish/half-Catholic Bill Maher: "I come from a mixed religious background--when I went to confession, I brought a lawyer with me." And there's half-Jewish beauty--Gwyneth Paltrow, Joan Collins, and Jane Seymour, just for starters. There are half-Jewish writers (Proust, Salinger), and half-Jewish characters in fiction by authors ranging from Philip Roth to Salman Rushdie. There's even that half-Jewish cartoon phenomenon Tommy Pickles, in Rugrats. There are half-Jewish politicians--Fiorello La Guar-dia, Barry Goldwater, Dianne Feinstein. And there are the extraordinary number of people, like General Wesley Clark, who discovered as adults that they were half-Jewish and then embraced their newfound double heritage.         This book includes an eye-opening essay on half-Jewish identity and looks into the often misunderstood history of half-Jews in the Holocaust. There are original interviews with half-Jews, as well as holiday cards and menus, poetry and song lyrics, and paintings and photographs. Intelligent, exuberant, entertaining, and thought-provoking, The Half-Jewish Book is a fascinating celebration of a cultural mix that is far greater than the sum of its parts.The premise of The Half-Jewish Book is simple if somewhat controversial: Being half-Jewish is a quality unto itself, sui generis. Half-Jewishness is a cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic mix that is, in a variety of ways, greater than the sum of its parts.        To take this position--and to revel in the celebration that follows from it--we stand in clear opposition to those who insist: "You are either Jewish or you are not; there's nothing in between." And we compound this blasphemy by suggesting that there is something unique, remarkable, and downright dazzling about the half-Jewish mind and the half-Jewish face, about the art and wit created by half-Jewish sensibilities, and in the ethical, literary, and political ideas produced from the half-Jewish perspective.        Enough already about the "half-Jewish problem" as the tragic product of intermarriage. It is time to explore the unique and fascinating world of the half-Jew.--from the Introduction The qualities of Robert Musil by Roger Kimball - The New ... The New Criterion now edited by Roger Kimball was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review ... Who is a Jew? - Wikipedia "Who is a Jew?" (Hebrew: pronounced [mihu jehudi]) is a basic question about Jewish identity and considerations of Jewish self ... The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary ... January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine ... Jews and Bolshevism: Names and Lists. The Council of the ... Amongst themselves the Jews are quite candid about their sympathy for and involvement in Bolshevism. On 4 April 1919 the Jewish Chronicle: There is much in the ... Carrie Fisher interview: The secrecy around the new Star ... Carrie Fisher interview: The secrecy around the new Star Wars film 'is like D-Day' Carrie Fisher is returning to play Princess Leia in Star Wars more than ... Killing Jesus: A History by Bill O'Reilly Martin Dugard ... BOOK I. THE WORLD OF JESUS. CHAPTER ONE. BETHLEHEM JUDEA. MARCH 5 B.C. MORNING. The child with thirty-six years to live is being hunted. Heavily armed soldiers from ... 6 Acts of Propaganda That Backfired Hilariously - Cracked.com Regimes live and die by their propaganda so you'd think the people in charge of it would always be at the top of their game. When fooling the world is your business ... Freelance Christianity - Philosophy Faith and the Real World Philosophy Faith and the Real World ... Jesuit priest and author James Martin recently said in an interview that we as a culture have sanitized the Christmas story. Prince's Life as a Jehovah's Witness: His Complicated and ... Prince was introduced to the faith by Larry Graham the bassist for Sly & The Family Stone. (Michael Jackson Venus and Serena Williams and the Notorious B.I.G. were ... Chrismukkah - Wikipedia History. Long before "Chrismukkah" entered the popular lexicon in the early 21st century Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations have been informally merged with one ...
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