Diaspora Jewish Identity Analysis
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Jewish Identity
In the article, Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of the Jewish Identity, by Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin are trying to figure out the space, identity and generations of Jewish population. As EU warns of rise in anti-Semitism in Europe, attacks on Jewish people escalates. Years ago, in WWII, Jews were exterminated by the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. Since then, Jewish population has always faced crisis after crisis. It is hard for me to believe, but as the book Heidegger and ‘’the jews’’ was mentioned in the text, it was confirmed that Jews still discrimination. Heidegger gets a capital H, while jews are in lowercase, why? Lyotard, the author of the book, does it to represent Jews as the forgotten-outsiders. I think Jews have