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  title info:
    title: As a Jew
    sub title: reclaiming our story from those who blame, shame, and try to erase us
  name:
    name part: Hurwitz, Sarah
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Shield, Nina
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 308 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: At thirty-six, Sarah Hurwitz was a typical lapsed Jew. On a whim, she attended an introduction to Judaism class and was astonished by what she discovered, thousands of years of wisdom from her ancestors about what it means to be human. That class sparked a journey of discovery that transformed her life. Years later, as Hurwitz wrestled with what it means to be Jewish at a time of rising antisemitism, she wondered where had the Judaism she discovered as an adult been all her life? Why hadn't she seen the beauty and depth of her tradition in those dull synagogue services and Hebrew school classes she'd endured as a kid? And why had her Jewish identity consisted of a series of caveats and apologies. I'm Jewish, but not that Jewish. I'm just a cultural Jew. I'm just like everyone else but with a fun ethnic twist, a dash of neurosis, a touch of gallows humor, a little different, but not in a way that would make anyone uncomfortable. Seeking answers, she went back through time to discover how hateful myths about Jewish power, depravity and conspiracy have worn a neural groove deep into the world's psyche, shaping not just how others think about Jews, but how Jews think about themselves. She soon realized that the Jewish identity she'd thought was freely chosen was actually the result of thousands of years of antisemitism and two centuries of Jews erasing parts of themselves and their tradition in the hope of being accepted and safe. In As a Jew, Hurwitz documents her quest to take back her Jewish identity, how she stripped away the layers of antisemitic lies that made her recoil from her own birthright and unearthed the treasures of Jewish tradition. With antisemitism raging worldwide, Hurwitz's defiant account of reclaiming the Jewish story and learning to live as a Jew, without apology, has never been timelier or more necessary.
  table of contents: Author note -- Introduction: Waking up to my humiliating Jewish identity -- Discovering Jewish keys -- The least mysterious story ever -- Fooled once -- Shame on me -- My search for Israel's original sin -- Climbing out of rabbit holes that lead to the same old place -- Unowned Jew reclaiming my tradition -- Conclusion: Being uncool, knowing Jews -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.
  note: Sarah Hurwitz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hurwitz, Sarah
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: United States
    topic: Identity
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Cultural assimilation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
  classification: E184.37.H87 A3 2025
  classification: 305.892/4073
  identifier: 9780063374973
  identifier: 0063374978
  identifier: 9780063374959
  identifier: 0063374951
  identifier: 9780063374966
  identifier: 2025003464
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250129
    record change date: 20260624192408.3
    record identifier: in00005779834