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Everyday Jews - Why The Jewish People Are Not Who You Think They Are - cover

Everyday Jews - Why The Jewish People Are Not Who You Think They Are

Keith Kahn-Harris

Publisher: Icon Books

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Summary

Can Jews be allowed to become boring?


With Israel and antisemitism constantly in the news, it seems as though the Jewish people - a fraction of a percentage of the world's population - have become synonymous with controversy, drama and anxiety. But what if there was another side to this persistently interesting people; one that non-Jews often don't know about and Jews rarely talk about? This is the stuff of 'everyday' Jewishness; the capacity to be ordinary, mundane and sometimes just plain dull.


Keith Kahn-Harris lifts the lid on this surprising world in a book for Jews and non-Jews alike. Arguing that his people's extraordinary public visibility today is harming their ability to live everyday Jewish lives, he celebrates the mundanity and mediocrity of a people before it vanishes completely.
Available since: 03/13/2025.
Print length: 256 pages.

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