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ent — or a child of theirs who is now
on a journey to find his or her Jewish
self."
Within the first chapter,
Hertzberg and Hirt-Manheimer get
right to the point: Their belief that
they are the "chosen people" is the
very thing that sets Jews apart, that
makes them "other" in societies
which value conformity.
Jews claims that Jewish history —
from Abraham until now — is like a
meandering river, held within banks
of anti-Semitism and other threats
to continued Jewish existence.
And it is the Jews, write the
authors, who contribute to this anti-
Semitism. "Their contribution to
Jew-hatred is that they insist on
being Jews; by definition they chal-
lenge the existing dogmas."
But "[the] basic emotion [of the
Jews] is pride, not fear," assert the
authors. "Affirming Jews cleave to
their Jewishness in the conviction
that they are the chosen people.
This may be a delusion, or at the
very least an exaggeration, but this is
at the very core of their self-image,"
they write. "It has given us the
courage, in age after age, to go on
and raise our children within our
tradition and community."
While other peoples at one time
or another have considered them-
selves "chosen," Jews are different,
Hertzberg asserts. "We have suffered
for our chosenness more than oth-
ers. God imposes on us more severe
burdens. [Another] thing that sets
us apart is our ability to start over
after such tragedies. Other cultures
may have suffered horrible tragedies
or declines, but they have never
risen again the way the Jews have."
Hertzberg, who every year on the
eve of Yom Kippur lights 37 candles
in memory of relatives lost in the
Holocaust, uses its incomprehensi-
ble tragedy to make his point.
"When you wake up in 1945 and
see that one-third of your people
have been murdered and then to
carve out a nation three years later is
incredible," he explains.
Another essential element of the
Jewish character is factionalism,
assert the authors. Yet — given their
long history of internal strife — the '
vast majority of affirming Jews feel a
strong sense of belonging to one
another. Jews depend on one anoth-
er and affirming Jews adhere to the ,
talmudic principle that "all Jews are
responsible for one another."
Today, write the authors, despite
Top: Aron Hirt-Manheimer
Above: Arthur Hertzberg
their differences, it is contemporary
Israel that "takes Jews beyond their
age-old factionalism to the bedrock
of their innermost identity. It
assures Jews that they are an eternal
people."
The third essential element the
authors explore is the Jew as out-
sider. "The truth is that Jews have
had the habit, since Abraham, of
being willfully different and, yes,
often in opposition to the majority,"
write the authors.
They expound upon this status as
outsider through a variety of reli-
gious and secular personages —
from Abraham, who displayed a
wild streak in breaking his father's
idols, to Woody Allen, for whom
the authors write, "God has failed
the world."
This ability of the Jew to stand
apart was explained by Sigmund
Freud, an ultimate outsider — who
remained to the end of his life "an