Jerusalem Calling

by Joel Schalit

American by birth, Israeli by association, and homeless by conscience, Joel Schalit is uniquely qualified to blast all stereotypes of Jewish identity. Moving effortlessly from philosophical complexity to outrageous humor, Schalit’s writing, and his ability to critically interrogate everything from the religious right to punk rock to Middle Eastern politics provides a singular perspective on life in a post-everything age. This book signals the emergence of a new breed of public intellectual.

Joel Schalit is a political scientist living in San Francisco, where he works as an editor of Chicago's Punk Planet magazine and UC Berkeley's online politics and culture journal, Bad Subjects . He is a regular contributor to the San Francisco Bay Guardian . Schalit co-edited and contributed to Bad Political Education for Everyday Life (NYU Press, 1998).

Genres: Nonfiction

250 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

Reviews

[Mark Desrosiers · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wrote a fair and balanced review of this, which features most of my key criticisms. But maybe it was too fair and balanced. Reading this was a nightmare:

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[agatha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting & informative, especially about a particular perspective on american punk over the last 20 years, but fairly self-involved and fairly snarkily searing, which may be your kind of thing.