Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Leifer, Joshua

Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life

From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity...
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Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Leifer, Joshua

Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life

CHF 42.59

Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life

CHF 42.59
Author: Joshua Leifer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in.

Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer's lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated; soon there will be no living survivors. After two millennia of Jewish life defined by diasporic existence, the majority of the world's Jews will live in a sovereign Jewish state by 2050. Against the backdrop of national political crises, resurgent global antisemitism, and the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Leifer provides an illuminating and meticulously reported map of contemporary Jewish life and a sober conjecture about its future.

Leifer begins with the history of Jewish immigrants in America, starting with the arrival of his great-grandmother Bessie from a shtetl in Belarus and following each subsequent generation as it conformed to the prevailing codes of American Jewish life. He then reports on the state of today's burning Jewish issues. We meet millennial Jewish racial justice organizers, Orthodox political activists, young liberal rabbis looking to "queer" the Torah through exegesis, Haredi men learning full-time at the world's largest yeshiva, progressive anti-Zionists attempting to separate Judaism from nationalism, and right-wing Israeli public intellectuals beginning to imagine a future without American Jews.

As it traverses today's Jewish landscape through uncommon personal familiarity with the widest range of Jewish experience, Tablets Shattered also charts the universal quest to build enduring communities amid historical and political rupture.

Author: Joshua Leifer
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593187180

About the Author
Joshua Leifer is a journalist, editor, and translator. His essays and reporting have appeared widely in international publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Haaretz, The Nation, and elsewhere. A member of the Dissent editorial board, he previously worked as an editor at Jewish Currents and at +972 Magazine. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Yale University, where his research focuses on the history of modern moral and social thought.

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