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...become their entire identity as they focus on their own history and ignore the rest, or relegate the rest to a minor status. Those who continue to revel in the lessons of history will come to see it as their identity and will not be able to escape its grasp...
...reading of Jewish history. I seem unable to recall any of my history teachers in Israel proposing such a positive reading of anti-Semitism. Luckily, Israelis deny the kind of perverse logic that Rascoff offers. Most Israelis possess a healthy sense of their own identity and a firm enough grasp of the complexities of Israeli reality to avoid premature declarations of failure whenever the image they see in the mirror is not the loveliest of them...
...self-deceptions more thoroughly than now seems necessary. He has an annoying tendency to introduce a new character and then jump years or even decades ahead in time for an anecdote, leaving him constantly backtracking: "This all came much later" or "But all that came later." And his grasp of English grammar is sometimes shaky. A husband named Mert Perry wakes to the sound of helicopters: "Next to him, the noise also awakened Darlene Perry." A slim, original book resides within Once Upon a Distant War, hard to find but finally worth the effort...
...Satan; they were known to be obsessed with sin, and they pictured their own history as an epic struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repertoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil nonetheless seems week and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes indifferent...
...These courses] may be focused on a specific topic or problem or theme, but are oriented exclusively for undergraduates and designed to enable undergraduates to grasp the essentials of the national literary tradition that they are studying," Epps said...