audiobook Ibn Tufayl: Living the Life of Reason (Makers of the Muslim World) by Taneli Kukkonen in History

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Shlomo Sand was born in 1946; in a displaced person’s camp in Austria; to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man; Sand came to question his Jewish identity; even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection; he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that; in the current context; what “Jewish” means is; above all; not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular; non-exclusive Israeli identity; beyond the legends of Zionism.