If you were to define yourself as a Jew, what exactly gives you your identity?

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Jewishness
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Antisemitism
Interviewee:
Alon Gal (Andrei Weiss)
Date of birth:
1938
Interviewer:
Getta Neumann
November 2012
,
Haifa, Israel

If you were to define yourself as a Jew, what exactly gives you your identity?

‍Suffering from anti-Semitism. Full stop.

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‍It is a negative definition.

‍For my entire childhood, this was for me the definition of Jewish identity.

Source:
Neumann, G. (2014) Destine evreiești la Timișoara. Portretul comunității din perioada interbelică până azi, Bucharest: Hasefer Publishing House
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