The Imaginary Jew

by Alain Finkielkraut

Book Overview

The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through that storm.

Finkielkraut decodes the shifts in anti-Semitism at the end of the Cold War, chronicles the impact of Israel's policies on European Jews, opposes arguments both for and against cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803268955
• ISBN13: 9780803268951
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 8.5"