Sunday, October 07, 2012

Being A Jew Is...

I am just rephrasing Ernst Gellner's witty and intelleigent remark from his 1983 book, Nations and Nationalism, p. 107, which I found here, p. 27:-


Being a Jew is like being aware of sex or death: it is a reality always present,
you can't escape it, there are no known solutions and one finds people talking about
it as if it really wasn't there.


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