More on Nadia Abu El Haj in the New Yorker
Further to my earlier post on Jane Kramer’s article in The New Yorker: still haven’t read it. Phoebe Maltz has, and says what she thinks here. An alternative view can be found at the Orthodox Anarchist (where there is also a link to another PDF of the full article).
There’s also an audio interview from KPFK (Los Angeles) in which Jon Wiener talks to the writer of the article, Jane Kramer. It can be accessed from this page - the direct link to the audio is here. The relevant portion of the programme starts at 21:00 and is about 15 minutes in length.
As it happens, I have just republished my own ‘Was Nadia Abu El Haj treated fairly?’, an article originally commissioned by History News Network and published by HNN on 12 November 2007, here on greycat.org. You can find the article here.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Your linked article brings to mind the obvious: if Judaism as a nation was invented in the late 19th century, how does one explain that Judaism as a religion but *not* a nation (or several nations) was invented in the late 18th?