ABOUT THE BOOK
After 2000 years of being a
minority culture, the world's Jews still make up a vibrant global
community. But besides being this intercultural community the
Jewish culture has always been able to interact with its
co-existing societies, seeping into the surrounding cultures and
vice versa.
From this meeting of the
cultures, art, literature, music, humour and great thoughts have
emerged, spanning Maimonides and Spinoza to Woody Allen and Leonard
Cohen.
But where exactly do the Jews live and who are they? How did the
Jews grow from a small close-Oriental people to a global culture?
What is the significance of the large Jewish hubs in the US and
Israel today? The book provides answers to all of these questions
while also explaining the meaning of kosher, Torah, caddish,
schmuck, Diaspora, Yom Kippur, Kabbalah and Matzah.
THE AUTHOR
Heidi Laura is a writer and
journalist at the Danish paper Weekendavisen. She holds a
PhD. in Jewish Studies and Hebrew and is a former associate
professor at Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and
employee at the Danish Jewish Museum.
REVIEWS
"This book is about the Jewish world, not about what the
non-Jewish world has done to the Jews in our time - but vice
versa." WEEKENDAVISEN
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