To Be a Jew: Joseph Chayim Brenner as a Jewish Existentialist

by Avi Sagi

Book Overview

To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner's readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence.
In contrast to this perception, Avi Sagi proves that not only did Brenner not reject the value of the Jewish existence, but the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441109730
• ISBN13: 9781441109736
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"