- 262 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world. The legacy bequeathed to Eugene Goodheart was a "progressive" secular Yiddish education which identifi ed Jewish struggles against oppression with working class struggles against exploitation. In the vanguard was the Soviet Union. Goodheart's heroes were Moses, Bar Kochbah, Judah Maccabee, Karl Marx and that strange honorary Jew, Joseph Stalin, whose anti-Semitism would later become known to the world. Confessions of a Secular Jew is the story of Goodheart's disillusionment with the naive, even false, progressivism of that education. At the same time, it is an attempt to rescue and come to grips with the positive remains of that education and heritage.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction to the Transaction Edition
- One: Coming of Age in Brooklyn
- Two: Higher Education
- Three: Innocent Abroad
- Four: Teacher in America
- Five: On the One Hand
- Six: Heavy Breathing
- Seven: Mother Right
- Eight: A Question of Identity