On Being a Jew. From: The Economist (US) | Date: November 9, 1991 | COPYRIGHT 1991 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

ON BEING A JEW. By James Kugel. HarperCollins; 191 pages; $17.95. Distributed in Britain by HarperCollins

ALTHOUGH jewish tradition invests the affairs of men with the utmost seriousness, historical writing did not emerge as a full-blown Judaic discipline until well into the 19th century. It is all the more striking, then, that most of the best-known Jewish scholars of modern times have been historians. Striking perhaps, but no accident. jewish historical writing has flourished in modem times precisely because the ambivalence of the historian, who approaches the past with both ...

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