Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea

Time to Read
3 hrs 44 mins

Reading Time

3 hrs 44 mins

How long to read Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea?

The estimated word count of Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea is 55,800 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 3 hrs 44 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 6 hrs 12 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 4 mins.

Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea - 55,800 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 6 hrs 12 mins
Average 250 words/min 3 hrs 44 mins
Fast 450 words/min 2 hrs 4 mins
Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea by Matt Greene
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Matt Greene

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What does it mean to be Jew(ish) in 2020? Caught between tradition and modernity, between a Jewish family and a non-Jewish son, Matt Greene ponders the big questions concerning identity, religion, family and Seinfeld.When his son was born to a non-Jewish mother, Matt began to consider the upbringing he’d put behind him—the sense of not belonging, the forbidden foods, the holidays that felt more like punishments. There are more types of Jew than there are bagel fillings, and for every two there are three opinions. But if you’re not a black-hatted frummer, if you’re allergic to groups, if you observe but don’t believe, or you don’t observe at all, does that make you less Jewish?In this wide-ranging series of essays, at turns irreverent, insightful, urgent and iconoclastic, Matt considers what might loosely be termed ‘the modern Jewish experience’, and asks what it means to be anything in a world obsessed with the self and the other.