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Transaction Publishers 2004 2nd Edition Soft cover Very Good Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Stiff pictorial wraps. Highlighting and a few ink marks through intro. chapter and minor highlighting to a few pages in text, otherwise unmarked and essentially as issued. 2nd ed.
Transaction Publishers, Date: 2004. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff pictorial wraps. Highlighting and a few ink marks through intro. chapter and minor highlighting to a few pages in text, otherwise unmarked and essentially as issued. 2nd ed.. 2004. Transaction Publishers ISBN 0765805995 9780765805997 [US]
ISBN10: 0765805995, ISBN13: 9780765805997, [publisher: Transaction Publishers] Softcover Stiff pictorial wraps. Highlighting and a few ink marks through intro. chapter and minor highlighting to a few pages in text, otherwise unmarked and essentially as issued. 2nd ed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
ISBN10: 0765805995, ISBN13: 9780765805997, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2004-01-01, New Brunswick, NJ |London] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]
ISBN10: 0765805995, ISBN13: 9780765805997, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2004-01-01, New Brunswick, NJ |London] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]
Paperback / softback. New. 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 identified 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.In the introduction to the new Transaction edition of his memoir, Goodheart addresses the themes of social justice, Zionism, chosenness, messianism, and alienation from a secular Jewish perspective. The memoir takes the reader from Goodheart's coming of age in Brooklyn to his higher education at Columbia College in the early fifties and beyond to his varied career as university teacher and literary critic. The memoir provides memorable characterizations of writers whom he knew, among them Lionel Trilling (his teacher), Saul Bellow, Richard Wright (whom he met in ...
ISBN10: 0765805995, ISBN13: 9780765805997, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]
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Routledge, Date: 2004-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2004. Routledge ISBN 0765805995 9780765805997 [US]
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