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Believers
Believers When I was a child, the grownups around me held all kinds of beliefs and I wished I could be like them. Failing that, I hoped they wouldn’t find out how I really felt. As a high school girl, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", American girls, American hostage in Teheran, anti-Jewish persecution, Barry Rosen, becoming a Jew, belief and identity, believers, Brooklyn College philosophy, child's insincerity, City University of New York, coherent narrative, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, core identity, courtship modalities, damned if you do damned if you don't, dialectical life, different strokes different folks, discovering Jewish identity, discovering one is Jewish, explaining everything, explaining one’s life, finding a narrative thread, French courtship, French women, Freudian psychoanalysis, girlfriends and boyfriends, God and chronology, God in history, God's presence, grownups' beliefs, handling insults, harassing Jewish students, hazing in Australia, Hegelian narrative, holding nothing back, Jewish explanations, Jewish identity, joke that's not a joke, keeping your cool, keeping your honor, losing social power, maintaining a sense of belonging, misspent youth, Park Avenue psychoanalysis, partnering with God, persecution and identity, personal motivation, personal uniqueness, philosophic memoir, post-modern deconstructions, pretend adoration, reductive explanation, Smith College girls, social clumsiness, social cuts, social double bind, social power, standing up to persecution, unified self, Yaffa Eliach's Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust
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The Right Way to Act
The Right Way to Act An essay of mine with that title, excerpted from my Good Look at Evil, is now posted on academia.edu. It’s on the question of how to conduct oneself during one’s Holocaust. The title is meant … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic colleagues, Argumentum ad baculum, armchair moralizing, author meets reader, behaviorism, being ready for a book, blaming the victim, book smart v street smart, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College faculty, Brooklyn College students, character test, children of survivors, choices of duties, complex people, conditioning as excuse, confronting malice, cruelty as a motive, exonerating the guilty, extenuating circumstances, faculty reception, God as a person, hasidic tales, Hasidism, historian's verification, Holocaust, Holocaust atrocities, Holocaust commemorator, Holocaust studies, Holocaust survivor interviews, Holocaust survivors, human devotion, interviewing sources, Martin Buber's "Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters", moral confusion, moral evasion, naturalism, oversensitivity, personal love, Personal loyalty, primary sources, pulling moral rank, social conditioning, spiritual endurance, the hasidic world, the human spirit, the Jewish spirit, the teaching is in the tale, the triumph of the human spirit, The World of Truth, Yaffa Eliach's Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust
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