From Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson: “The UK was the only country in the world, during the 1960s and 1970s, where high-level work was undertaken,in separate channels, on the nature and origins of nationalism in a general sense, by four influential Jewish intellectuals–the conservative historian Elie Kedourie, the Enlightenment-liberal philosopher and sociologist Ernest Gellner, the then…
Mark Oppenheimer in the New York Times asks why people (including Jews) don’t or won’t use the word Jew, when they are quite comfortable talking about Christians and Moslems. Check out the whole article.
Look out for Which is the Merchant Here? On the Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender by Julie Mell.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/183638/jewy-young-adult-books
From David Brauner in Post-War Jewish Fiction For some Judaism is an innate, inalienable property, for others a learned tradition; for some, a belief system, for others a cultural construct; for some a race, for others a religion; for some a nationality, for others a sensibility; for some a historical legacy, for others a metaphysical state.
“Many of history’s most influential artists were Jews who based their work on the their identity…Conflick makes great art, particularly if it is internalized, and Jewish heritage is always tugging at modern culture.” Kristofer Jenson @dailyfanboy in Dig BostonApril 18, 2012 Full article: http://digboston.com/watch/2012/04/preview-jewishfilm-2012/ MFA page for the festival: http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/jewishfilm2012-national-center-jewish-films-festival
