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An investigation of Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book is to open many of these issues up for discussion. Since Israel defines itself openly as the ‘Jewish State’, we should ask what the notions of ’Judaism’, ‘Jewishness’, ‘Jewish culture’ and ‘Jewish ideology’ stand for. Gilad examines the tribal aspects embedded in Jewish secular discourse, both Zionist and anti Zionist; the ‘holocaust religion’; the meaning of ‘history’ and ‘time’ within the Jewish political discourse; the anti-Gentile ideologies entangled within different forms of secular Jewish political discourse and even within the Jewish left. He questions what it is that leads Diaspora Jews to identify themselves with Israel and affiliate with its politics. The devastating state of our world affairs raises an immediate demand for a conceptual shift in our intellectual and philosophical attitude towards politics, identity politics and history.

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It is a scholarly and truly monumental work, deeply profound and, of course, controversial. (Alan Hart, British Journalist and covert diplomat in Middle East, ITN's News at 10, BBC's Panorama) A seriously funny writer and the wittiest musician since Ronnie Scott. We're lucky Gilad Atzmon is around. (Robert Wyatt, musician and founding member of Soft Machine)

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Atzmon is a world-acclaimed jazz saxophonist and composer, a member of the Blockheads and fronts the Orient House Ensemble. He has published numerous political and cultural essays. See: www.gilad.co.uk www.myspace.com/giladatzmon www.jazzaproductions.squarespace.com

Paperback: 177 pages
Publisher: Zero Books (September 16, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1846948754
ISBN-13: 978-1846948756
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.5 x 8.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 109 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #454,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1577 in Books > History > World > Jewish
- #2355 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism
- #2527 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Pop Culture > General

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George C

Gotta love people calling the author ( an Israeli Jew ) a Nazi.

August 23, 2015

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there are some people to whom everybody is a Nazi, especially all Palestinians or all Arabs or all Muslims and so on ... these people will not enjoy this book.

there are also some people to whom Jews are a super-human race of "god's chosen people" who are absolutely 100% beyond reproach, can never do anything wrong, are always victims, must constantly be worshiped and given anything they ( Jews ) might want to ask ( like German made Nuclear submarines for free, US made F35 Jet Fighters before even US itself can have them and so on ) ... these people will not enjoy this book either.

but if you wish to look at the Jews critically, whether you are a Jew yourself or you are not - then you will more likely than not learn a few things in this book that you didn't know even if you have been studying Jews for a while.

the Author ( Gilad Atzmon, a Jew born in Israel himself ) does not hate Jews, but is extremely critical of them, and has dedicated his life to the kind of self-reflection that he ( correctly ) says most Jews are incapable of.

this is an important book for anybody aspiring to be considered a serious intellectual in the areas of politics and geopolitics. this book doesn't sugarcoat, or skirt around anything, and it doesn't hint on things but rather states them plainly. the ideas in this book will be extremely troubling to some people ... and that's OK - this book is not for them. this book is for people who have an intellectual backbone to deal with reality instead of trying to rationalize it away.

finally, the Author of this book is a successful Jazz musician and did not have to write this book to make money, rather, he had to write it because others wouldn't. while there are certainly other books critical of Jews they don't really look at the "Jewish Question" from the same perspective as Gilad does, namely that of self-reflection and treating the "Jewish Question" as a sort of a mental illness rather than criminal behavior. This perspective is fascinating if you're a serious thinker and i highly recommend this book.

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Most Sophisticated and Complete Assessment of Jewish Identity Politics that I've Encountered

March 21, 2016

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Just finished reading this fascinating book for the third time.

This is a text to be read and pondered. There's a lot under the hood here. One reading is not enough.

Is Gilad Atzmon right about everything he talks about? Probably not. But I think The Wandering Who? gives the most sophisticated and complete assessment of Jewish identity politics that I've encountered.

Because I'm a skeptic (I cannot buy into any one person or group's views on this issue) and because Atzmon's book raises a lot of good questions that I wouldn't have asked if I hadn't read it, I have been inspired to read more books on the subject. Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People and Alison Weir's Against Our Better Judgement will be next.

Is Atzmon a great writer? No. But he's engaging and offers a lot to think about. And the book is much clearer than some of his worst online interviews and videos where his English isn't that good. (Some of his online videos are excellent and go into greater detail. Some cover topics not covered in this book.)

Atzmon calls himself a philosopher and I generally agree with this self-assessment. Mainly because he is extremely curious and courageously asks a lot of probing questions. However, the way he uses Jacques Lacan, for instance, to bolster his argument is a bit sloppy at best.

Is Atzmon an antisemite? No. Not because the term "antisemite" is almost always misused (George Orwell warned us about Jewish use of "doublespeak" in 1984 and Animal Farm), but because it just ain't so.

He describes 3 categories of Jews. Category 1 & 2 are human beings who happen to be Jews. They're human first and Jews second. They're not so caught up in tribal collectivist thinking. The 3rd category Jews are made up of people who take their "Jewishness" -- whatever that is (usually an essentialist racial identity) -- to be their primary defining trait. Their connection to the remaining human race comes a distant second.

Arthur Aouizerat in his R&E Brest essay, "Zionism, Talmudic Judaism and Jewishness" agrees with Atzmon' but, I think, defines the 3rd category Jew more precisely as "Talmudic Jewish-Zionist practitioners, non-practicing Talmudic-Zionist Jews, secular non-Zionist Jewish leftists and even anti-Zionists." (For those who don't know, the Talmud is an extremely racist and just downright ugly text that is the core of Jewish "scholarly" thought--not the Torah. It was the writers of the Talmud who had decided which books were added to the Torah and which weren't. Fortunately, most Jews are not that familiar with the Talmud.)

Other people have left more detailed reviews than mine. However, I think the most important point hasn't been covered so far and that is to read the book, think for yourself and investigate further.

Many people have wrongly dismissed his arguments mainly out of self-censorship (political correctness) or because they have their own opposing political agenda. It's interesting that Gilad Atzmon doesn't see himself as political--just an independent thinker sharing his thoughts. Yet someone publically asking tough questions is itself political me thinks.

Rest assured: The fact that 21% of reviewers have given this book 1-Star (as of the date of this review) merely indicates that Atzmon has struck a nerve and makes this text ring all the more true.

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Will Tuttle

Five Stars

December 17, 2017

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Excellent informative, and shines light on many problems in our world today.

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David J. Edwards

Get Both Books!

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Another great book that must be read along with Being In Time, Gilad's recent work.

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D. Waterman

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I like Atzmon and I agree with most of what he has to say. In particular I agree with his premise that Israeli's are traumatized more by their possible future and their stories about the past than by the Holocaust. Where I disagree with Atzmon is that these expectations and stories are not real traumata, they most definitely are. The problem, as I see it, is that Israelis are failing to take responsibility for their narratives and how these impact their lives. Atzmon accused me of being traumatized when I wrote to him, unthinkingly, that my grandparents had been gassed. Upon reflection I had to admit they might have died of starvation or during transit. However, Atzmon broke off the exchange, thereby underlining the fact that we are all, to some extent, traumatized by the Holocaust and its enduring aftermath.

The bitterness of Atzmon's criticism is something I share. We are embittered, perhaps by our inherited expectation that as Jews, we need to do better. I am sick to death of being identified with Israel just because I am Jewish. But a deeper concern motivates our cynicism and it is that for a collective humanity that is being lost due to tribal insularism.

I would have liked to continue my discussion with Atzmon. Instead we found ourselves, two like souls, distrusting and impatient of each other. That is must come to this....

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