Solidarity, culture, history and memory are the current ingredients of Jewish identity. Shlomo Avineri, professor emeritus of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the Jewish Lives biography Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution. Who would I like to meet from Jewish history? The Jewish women labor activists like Rose Schneiderman, Clara Lemlich, Pauline Newman, Bessie Abramowitz I would want to ask them what gave them the nerve, the brashness, the willingness to act as they did. If you could meet any figure from Jewish history, who would it be and why? My perspective as an historian prevents me from going there.Ĥ. I could not even begin to imagine the future of Jewish life in a century from now. What do you think Jewish life will look like in 100 years from now? As a teenager, Milton Steinberg's, AS A DRIVEN LEAF complicated what I thought I knew about the history of Judaism and in terms of fiction I read as an adult, Isaac Bashevis Singers, THE SLAVE moved me deeply.ģ. As a child, Sydney Taylor's ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY made me yearn to live in New York, or at least to visit it, and to think that I have written scholarly works on the neighborhood and city where the protagonists of the book lived, is amusing. It depends when in my reading life I think about. What is your favorite Jewish book and why? It will, I think, get more and more thorny.Ģ. I am loathe as an historian to make a prediction, but in any case, it seems to me that the growing divide between the two Jewries and the ways in which the situation in Israel/Palestine has invaded American politics as a problem, whether real or rhetorical, will not go away. The churning politics of Israel/Palestine and its impact on Jews in the United States. In your opinion, what is the defining feature of Jewish life today? Hasia Diner, professor of American Jewish history and director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University, is the author of the Jewish Lives biography Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World.ġ.
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