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Shlomo Sand\u2019s forthcoming\u00a0How I Stopped Being A Jew\u00a0<\/a>is a sharp slap to the brain. He challenges many of today\u2019s tropes of Jewishness \u2013 the notion that there is a \u201cJewish culture,\u201d the exclusive attention to Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis, the contempt of Yiddish language and culture, the antiquity of Zionist ideology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most centrally, he challenges the notion of \u201csecular Jewishness,\u201d arguing that it is a recent construct that shares an uncomfortable affinities with the racist theories with which it claims to be at war. Sand didn\u2019t really stop being Jewish. As an atheist and secularist, he has concluded that he was never been Jewish in the traditional religious sense of the term.<\/p>\n

Early on, he challenges the notion that anti-Semitism, or \u201cJudeophobia\u201d continues to victimize Jews in the way that it has done in the past. He writes, \u201cThe long and tormented century of Judeophobia that the Western world experienced between approximately 1850 and 1950 has effectively ended,\u201d and complains that \u201cTo try to equate today\u2019s\u00a0marginal anti-Semitism with the powerful, mainstream Judeophobia of the past amounts to greatly downplaying the impact of Jew-hatred in Western, Christian and modern civilization as expressed until the mid-twentieth century.\u201d<\/p>\n

In place of the virulent hatred of the past, \u201cToday, on the part of the \u2018post-Shoah goyim\u2019, we face a symbiosis of fears, guilty consciences and ignorance, while among the \u2018new Jews\u2019 we often find victimization, narcissism, pretentiousness, and likewise a crass ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"