Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: An American Story | 
 enlarge | Author: Yossi Klein Halevi
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T)
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 574404
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Lst Ed
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Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 0316498602
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.049240092
EAN: 9780316498609
ASIN: 0316498602
Publication Date: November 1995
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An award-winning Israeli journalist recounts his youth as a Jewish activist in America and the Soviet Union, his devotion to the late rabbi Meir Kahane, and his eventual moderation and advocacy of Jewish-Gentile reconciliation.
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Insightful, dynamic March 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was fortunate to hear and meet Yossi at a talk in St Louis. I was very impressed with his insight and realism combined with passion for Jewish Life. Since I grew up in Brooklyn and spent a year in Israel, his adventures parallel my own although I was much lower key than Yossi. I am not an extremist. So his book takes me the extra step. This is a very valuable book for anyone who is interested in the Jewish experience.
read this! August 5, 2001
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
one of the best books i hav ever read.touching and easy to relait to.very good.
The Only Book of Its Kind December 25, 1999
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a most unique subject matter - I know no other book on it - about a former member of the inner circle of the JDL (Jewish Defense League). On that note, HaLevi offers invaluable information about why he (and others) joined, and their activities. Most poignant is their work on behalf of the Jews in (what was then) the Soviet Union; Halevi and his "friends" not only pulled guerilla theatre-type stunts on traditional Jewish organizations here in the U.S., "commanding" them to help these forgotten Jews, but the JDL also travelled to the Soviet Union to try to "free" the Soviet Jews (it didn't work, however). The other most compelling piece in his book is his writing about being a child of Holocaust Survivors - his father, a Hungarian Jew, hid in the woods for years during WWII and was saved by a kind non-Jew. As my parents are also Holocaust Survivors, I can attest that HaLevi writes incredibly well on his background. He explains his own personal story, how he came to hate Gentiles, and felt that another Holocaust was inevitable. However, when he fell in love with a non-Jewish woman, this part of his life was drastically altered. A remarkable book; you won't find another one like it.
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