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Devorah Baum Feeling Jewish

A Book for Just About Anyone

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Yale Univ Press

USA

2017

Hardcover

282

Heavy

289811

978-0-300-21244-0

0-300-21244-5

Jews; Identity.

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In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on why Jews have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to "negative" feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are.

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