Israeli Blues
Doron Rosenblum
1985
“Secular is a terrible word”; “secular is a word I don’t like,” “there is no such thing as a secular Jew”—these clichés are common among absolutely secular intellectuals when they discuss problems of Israeli identity, when they themselves are as full of problems as a pomegranate is of seeds. The basic sense of inferiority of secular Israelis with…
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