Politics behind Jewish identity

In the process of becoming a successful American, a Jewish man was constantly posted on the so -called Jewish logo until he was considered to use the Jewish minds to succeed. Bulum, who is trying to go on the road to success, has to appreciate the embarrassment and even shameful situation as a Jews.

Author: Jin Hengshan

Figure: Tuwa Creative

At the moment when the tide of multiculturalism is still in progress, the topic of race and ethnicity has always been the object of literary attention. In recent years, Pulitzer and the National Book Award of the United States have many times to African, local, and Korean writers. Relatively speaking, Jewish literature, which has achieved great achievements in history, seems to be unknown. Is this related to part of the white people who have been considered white and at least successful in the United States? Or, the success of the Jews blurred the identity of their ethnic groups, so that there is no need to tell the story related to its characteristics?

In 2022, the Pulitzer novel award was awarded to a Jewish writer, and his work "The NetanyaHus" responded to the above doubts, so that people once again focused on the American Jewish descent. The narrative of the novel is humorous, at the same time, and irony, and at the same time, it presents self -deprecation and self -criticism. It is comparable to Jewish novels such as Malamed, Belle and Philip Ross in the history of literature.

It is worth noting that the awareness of the identity of the novel into the wooden three -pointer is not only the story of the conflict between the usual American Jewish identity. Talking about its origin, on the other hand, the political issues behind perspective, from the deep perspective of discussion from religion to ethnic to ethnic behavior, thereby setting off the reason why some Jews in history and the current world do. In this sense, this work surpasses the category of ordinary ethnic literature, and faces the paranoia of essentialist understanding caused by the bias of racial issues. In this regard, the novel shows its profound criticism, which is a rare expression in American ethnic literature in recent years.

In the 1950s, the School of Arts and Sciences, a rural town in New York State, had the first Jewish teacher, where he taught the history of American taxation. One day, the young assistant professor named Bumm, who was just out of the school, was asked to receive a Jewish scholar who came to apply for, and at the same time became a member of the History's Application Committee. The research fields of these two scholars are not related, but the Jewish identity has pulled them together. It is from here that the novel has begun to describe the complicated content of the content.

The author of the novel Joshua Cohen revealed that the story material comes from the US critic Harold Bloom, who told him for him. When Bloom, when he was young, he received an on campus named Neitaniaho The visit of Israeli historians and his family. This incident deeply attracted Cohen, so he had to write a novel in this regard. The prototype of the narrator in the story is Bloom, and Neitanahu is also based on real figures. He is the father of Israeli Prime Minister Neitanahu. This work can therefore be classified as historical novels, open up the gap between reality and fiction, and show the characters in reality in the eyes of readers.

As far as the character creation is concerned, Cohen obviously adds more fictional colors to Bumm, but only uses some living clues of real characters, which has nothing to do with Bloom in reality. Relatively speaking, in the image of Neitanahu, the author has worked hard, not only with his life background and growth trajectory, but also to explore his academic writings. Politics. All these are closely related to the real figure, which can be seen from the novel author's view of this character. However, this novel is not a biography after all. Cohen is not to portrays the portrait of Neitaniah, but to try to outline the contradiction of Jewish identity by telling the story of the character, and then reveal the source of the political difficulties behind the race problem.

From this perspective, the two main characters in the novel represent two Jewish Americans: one is to live with caution, work hard, and strive to assimilate as soon as possible; the other is to believe in Jewish beliefs, adhere to adherence God's voters' beliefs resolutely demand to realize the dream of reunion. On the surface, the former is a portrayal of many Jewish Americans living in the United States, and the latter is an inquiry about the origin of some Jewish nationalists. These two characters do not seem to have much relationship. The author can write each other, telling each story. Cohen's unusual manifestation is to integrate the two together. On the one hand, the former Jewish ethnic groups in the process of becoming an American are used to become the racial and cultural resistance and depression in the process of becoming Americans. On the other hand, Through the latter's re -thinking about the racial problem itself, this is actually a dilemma that the United States cannot get rid of.

Bulum, who came from New York to a small town college, wanted to pass academic roads and became Americans. He chose the history of taxation in American life as the research object, for this reason, he can get the title of "American researcher". This is not just a title, it also shows its posture from Jewish identity. He believes that the concept of "progress" is the symbol of the United States in his eyes. The so -called no matter who treats it, everyone is the same, and everyone is an American. However, in actual life, what he encountered was exactly what he did not want to face: the identity of the Jews was as follows, and from time to time, he was used as a handle in life and work. At the Christmas party, he was asked to play Santa Claus because Jewish grows a lot of beards. He studied tax history and his reputation was spread out. Everyone swarmed to ask him how to help reduce taxes. One major reason was that the Jews were good at calculating and sensitive to Qian. He was asked to participate in the application interviews of Neitanahu, just because they were all Jews, from the "family", and they were born to understand each other. The stereotypes behind this kind of reunion are the effective way to distinguish the ethnic groups. Unknowingly labeled the different objects, and its connotation also points to different degrees of racial discrimination. In Bumum's view, this caused a "Jewish anxiety" in the Jewish psychology that made them nervous. In this social atmosphere, a Jews were constantly posted on the so -called Jewish logo in the process of becoming a successful American, until they were considered to use the Jewish minds to succeed. Bulum, who is trying to go on the road to success, has to appreciate the embarrassment and even shameful situation as a Jews.

In contrast to the image of the embrace of the United States but being gathered by the United States, the figures of Neitanahu are shaped. Cohen outlines the historical trajectory of the characters through special plots: this is a Jews born in Poland, educated in the Palestone Israel Gathering Area, and affected by Jewish recurred thoughts. Like Bumm, they are discrete Jews. The difference is that the former is a way to dream of an American dream. Jewish identity is the object of being abandoned, and this is exactly what the latter adheres to. In order to show the reason for this persistence, Cohen fully excavated the background material of the character in the real history, and showed his firm position through the two fictional speeches. Here, the atmosphere of the academic topic depicted by the novel is cleverly combined with the political meaning of the racial concept disclosed in it. On the one hand, it fully mobilizes the curiosity of readers, and on the other hand, it shows the political concept. Cohen shows his writing talents here, and the two -way grasp between the subtle and sharp tone and the sharpness of the tone are unusual.

In the eyes of Neitanahu, the tragedy of the Jewish nation comes from the changes between religion to race. He studied from his academic expertise -the study of the Spanish religious referee in the Middle Ages -Example. Around the fifteenth century, Spain had a large -scale deportation and persecution of the Jews, not for religious reasons, because the Jews mostly transferred Catholicism before. The real reason is that Neitaniaho pointed out that in order to strengthen his rule, the newly established Kingdom of Spain needs to gain their rights from the nobles, and many Jews are loyal servants of nobles and provide funding in finance and financial resources. In order to completely overthrow the local aristocratic, the rulers of the kingdom invented the concept of "race" and announced that the Jews who favored the pope belonged to the Jewish race, and they would not change their faith. Dedicated, the religious referee played a huge role in this regard. Of course, the result is the weakness of the noble forces.

It should be pointed out that the concept of the racial concept is not invented by the Spanish religious referee, but they add a definition, that is, based on pure bloodline races, and bloodlines are synonymous with essence. The essence is difficult to change. The descent of the Jews is destined to be deeply rooted in the essence of the Jewish belief, which is difficult to change. Historian Neitanahu's theoretical argument, dripping water. Despite the describer's view, he seems to have forgotten the difference between 1495 and 1945. It seems that history has not changed, and this is always the case.

The most powerful evidence of Neitanahu is the application of this racial theory in Hitler. In revealing the absurdity of the racial logic of the persecutor, Neitanahu showed some scholars' style of learning as a public instrument. But Bumum vaguely felt that Neitanahu did not do academic research, but some kind of "superstition or dogma". In him, "history is theology, and the fact is the original belief." Everything in history comes from the source of belief. Sure enough, he quickly turned around and returned to the topic of the mission of the Jews. The Jews were God's voters, and they were promised to be promised to be a mission of Jewish unavoidable. Here, it should be explained that what he preach is the Jewish reciprocity thought of revising the position of the amendment, abandoning the idea of ​​coexisting with the Arabs in the trend of recurrence of the country, and establishing a completely pure Jewish country. Obviously, this correction ideas are based on the belief in pure Jewish descent. It is very suspended that the ancestral theory that Nitaniah was criticized by himself was used in the idea of ​​Jewish stateism without obstacles. And such a change, he did not seem to find any problems.

What surprised Bu Lam even more that Neitanahu then turned the topic to the United States. It is believed that the problem of racial discrimination in the United States can be solved with democracy. Sound allows everyone to unify under democracy. In this case, the issue of ethnicity will naturally not attract much attention. In other words, the embarrassment of the Jews encountered by Buham will not happen. This seemingly chaotic thought actually shows a key logic of Neitanahu's belief, that is, the absolute position and thought of serving me for the absolute position and thought of serving me. In its eyes, "democracy" has nothing to do with the original intention, but it is used to suppress abnormal sounds. Similarly, revealing the racial view of the pedigree is not to maintain justice, but to keep the Jews in mind the bloody vengeance, incite hatred, and implement a recovery action. In order to achieve your own goals, everything can be emptied, replaced with content, and retains the form. His position is to measure the absolute standard of all. Neutanahu, who was hanging in the river, made Bumham feel a crazy energy. As far as the attendees are concerned, his words behind him, the logic behind him is easy to think of Jewish stateism in reality. The novel tells only the story that happened in the 1950s, but readers can see that the thoughts of Neitanahu as a scholar eventually realized their son. Prime Minister, the national policy pursued is a replica of his father's absolute position. From another perspective, it is the maximization of Jewish identity, but the reality tells us that they firmly believe that the idea of ​​establishing pure Jewish State has brought about the situation of turbulence in the Middle East for many years. In order to maintain the purity of Jewish descent, regardless of the blood and tears of the Arabs of the Palestinian Arabs, this has made them become persecutors from their previous persecutions, and show the same ideological logic of the same persecutor. This can't help people feel greatly ironic. The meaning of the novel is obvious in this regard.

What is more noteworthy is that during the governance of Neitana, he was supported by some people in Israel, and even shouted the slogan of "Permi (his nickname), our king". Nationalism can trace back to the words and deeds of Launnetanahu, and the novel is also vividly described. On the other hand, if the situation in the United States is contacted, the absolute position behind this maximum behavior also points to the sanctuary that many Americans believe in: non -black or white. If I do n’t, it ’s wrong. It’ s different from me. The image of Neitanahu in Cohen's writing comes from history and confirms the truth in reality. The racial theory of blood is also a cognitive framework for many Americans's minds. Although the "political correctness" under multiculturalism has prevailed for many years, some fixed and stereotypes of the ethnic culture in the heart are still popular. In essence, this originated from the racial theory. In addition, ideological and single political ideas have made many people believe in their positions, and use an absolute thinking logic to defend their absolute correctness. Cohen wrote history and said the present.

The novel finally described a farce, the Nitanahu family, including his wife and three sons, set off a bottom of Bumm's home like a barbarian. This may be regarded as a symbol that indicates the terrible results of its Jewish absolute ideas. So far, Cohen has completed the turning of the politicalization of Jewish ideas from Jewish ethnicity. This is not only a rewriting of the tradition of ethnicity, but also a sublimation. It is a common problem in the current world. The historical stories of Bumum also have the meaning of facing the present, which is an important reason for the award of the novel.

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