What does it mean to be a post-Judaism Jew and why does Israeli society pose that question more pressingly than any other con-text in the past nearly 2000 years?
What is the editorial agenda of the Hebrew anthological /anthropological biblos, versus that of the later masterful compendia – how is the past portrayed and how is the future envisioned, in their respective literary constructions?
Could any of it happen any other way?
(Does it matter -)
Are we blind, deaf, and dumb descendents inheriting ancestral practices whose transmission to our own blind, deaf, and dumb descendents is the primary justification for our existence as Difference?
Or……?
Perhaps. Perhaps what we need is some of the economists’ “creative destruction”: in a post-modern capital of a post-industrial state, the outermost walls of the ghetto still stand in our minds. Even here, now, we are trapped by history instead of making it. Building it. Living it.
Can we walk right out of the ghetto of millenial grief of a glorious past, of slivered memories projected in a narrow frame across the canvas of our fate – and can we once again walk this path across the pathless steppe?
“What does it mean to be a post-Judaism Jew?”