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What the Jews Do
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 3, Fall 2011 (T211)
- pp. 144-152
- Article
- Additional Information
Jewishness is neither a set of beliefs nor the participation in a community, but rather recognition of one’s self in response to a force in the world. While we are “always already Jewish,” waiting to be hailed, our sense of identity remains phantasmic. It is this sense of longing, rather than any kind of belonging, that may be most helpful in elaborating an ethical diasporic identity.