Ruth Shamir Popkin
Ruth's books
In China it is Different
A diary recorded during an Israeli woman's visit to China in the midst of the turbulent period after Mao's death, the ink roaring everywhere.
Ruth Shamir Popkin describes a daily meeting with China, with demonstrators in Shanghai squares, with workers in factories, with farmers in the commune, with shoppers in shops, students in schools, women and people on the street.
Ruth contrasted her Israeli way of thinking with the strange and strange planet named China and illustrates to the Israeli reader what is happening and what is being said there.
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In the book, Ruth Shamir describes the social changes that took place in the country after the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, and the protest movements that followed.
Jewish Identity
Though the seemingly impossible dream of a sovereign Jewish state became a reality over sixty years ago, the question of Jewish identity remains as much an enigma as ever. That enigma is at the heart of Dr. Ruth Shamir's book as it explores the history - at times tragic, at times triumphant - of the evolution of Jewish identity in the modern era. Dr. Shamir skillfully guides the reader through a myriad of issues that are today at the center of a passionate debate both in Israel itself as well as in the Diaspora, where half of the world's Jews still live.
Who we are
Is Judaism a nation or a religious sect? How do Jews and Israelis define their loyalty to the Jewish nation? What is the attitude towards minorities in a country with a Jewish identity and how does the Holocaust define our identity? These questions and more are given a unique angle in Dr. Ruth Shamir's fascinating book. At the end of the book, the reader will be able to get a complete picture concerning one of the main issues in public debate in Israel - the issue of who is a Jew?
Book Launch - Jewish Identity
