Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. David Goldberg, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this fraught relationship and confronts them head on. He argues that it is wrong to equate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism, that it is far more difficult to be a Muslim in twenty-first century Britain than it is to be a Jew, that Israel is far too often treated sentimentally and that the identification of Israel with the Holocaust - memorializing the latter and sacralising the former - has had baneful effects. His discussion of the perennial question, 'who is a Jew?', is equally trenchant: he rejects all strict rabbinic criteria, proposing that a Jew is simply anyone who insists that he or she is one. Forthright, challenging and witty, "This is Not the Way" will spark debate, criticism and delight in equal measure.
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Rabbi Dr. David J. Goldberg OBE heeft een aanzienlijke bijdrage geleverd aan de ontwikkeling van de Joodse gemeenschap in Londen en heeft interreligieuze dialoog bevorderd. Zijn schrijven duikt in Israëlische en Joodse kwesties, waarbij hij vaak radicale standpunten verkent. Hij wordt erkend voor zijn moed in het publieke debat en voor het initiëren van interculturele en interreligieuze discussies. Zijn literaire bijdragen bieden diepgaande inzichten in de Israëlische geschiedenis en de Joodse psyche.
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Too often, notes historian David Goldberg, the mythic allure of the "Roaring Twenties" has deafened our ears to the real voices of those who lived through the decade. In Discontented America, he integrates social and political history to provide a new take on the 1920s - an account deeply rooted in the perspectives of that time. Goldberg argues that this contentious and fascinating decade should be viewed now as it was viewed then, as a distinctive postwar period, during which many of the conflicts generated by World War I continued to reverberate throughout American society.