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Message of the Non-Jewish Jew

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as a "non-Jewish Jew", claiming that "If you want to understand Bernie Sanders, this is what you need to know: He is the quintessential modern identity-free man. He is a non-Jewish Jew and a non-American American." Prager also named
150:. In neither sense am I therefore a Jew. I am, however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and exterminated. I am a Jew because I feel the pulse of 277: 91:
The essay coins the term "non-Jewish Jew" to describe himself and other secular Jewish humanists. Deutscher was an atheist from a
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In 2016, the Jewish-American conservative talk show host
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The essay was based on a lecture initially delivered in
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family who valued his Jewish heritage, while rejecting
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Index

Isaac Deutscher
Jewish identity
Secular Jewish culture
Orthodox Judaism
Zionism
Polish-Jewish
Isaac Deutscher
Hasidic
Jewish Orthodoxy
Jewish nationalism
Elisha ben Abuyah
Rabbi Meir
Baruch Spinoza
Uriel Acosta
Heinrich Heine
Karl Marx
Leon Trotsky
Sigmund Freud
Rosa Luxemburg
Jewish nationalism
internationalist
Jewish history
London
World Jewish Congress
Dennis Prager
Bernie Sanders
Noam Chomsky
George Soros
Anti-Zionism
Jewish left

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