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Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza : a reckoning / Peter Beinart.

Summary:

"In Peter Beinart's view, one story has long dominated Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of sacred Jewish tradition and history, and also warps our understanding of modern history. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, he argues, Jews must tell a new story. Beinart imagines an alternate story that would draw on other nations' efforts at moral reconstruction and a different reading of Jewish history. A story in which Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. One in which we inhabit a world that recognizes the infinite value of all human life, beginning in the Gaza Strip." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593803899
ISBN: 0593803892
Physical Description: 172 pages ; 20 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-172) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: We need a new story -- They tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat -- To whom evil Is done -- Ways of not seeing -- The new new Antisemitism -- Korach's Children.