Jew Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

7 Jew quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

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Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded…

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Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to…

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I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,…

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Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

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In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were…

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Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

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In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

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If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for…

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“Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid mass of commodities, a dream of turning into a notable, noticed and coveted commodity, a talked about commodity, a commodity standing out from the mass of commodities, a commodity impossible to overlook, to deride, to be dismissed. In…

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