{"product_id":"jewish-memes-tzvee-zahavy-9798798768011","title":"Jewish Memes","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an analogy or metaphor I find the idea of the meme attractive and I use it in this book in many ways to make some points about what makes a particular cultural group distinctive and how the traits of that group have been passed on from parents to children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is a chemistry and a DNA to the basic ideas and concepts that make someone Jewish. They are distinctive to defining an identity of a person as Jewish and transmissible to the next generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is also of course the fact that Jews claim affiliation to a biological heritage. We proudly say we are Members of the Tribe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI spent my life formulating and transmitting Jewish memes in a long a rich career of teaching and writing. This volume is a recapitulation of some of those most important things that I learned about some central Jewish memes.\u003cb\u003eDefinitions: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe term meme was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He conceived of memes as the cultural parallel to biological genes and considered them as being in control of their own reproduction.\u003cbr\u003eThe genes in your body carries chemical instructions that make up the characteristics of who you are. Those instructions are in the DNA that makes your personality distinctive. And you transmit the DNA data down to your descendants. That is how the continuity of biological life works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat Dawkins proposed was that there is a chemical unit of culture that contains the instructions for the characteristics of who you are as a member of a cultural family. That is what he called a \"meme\". It is spread and transmitted across space and time to propagate and perpetuate a distinctive cultural group. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut this is not a tight scientific notion with rigorous rules. The DNA of the double helix is comprised of units of amino acids that pair up in ACTG units to define precise elements of the genetic code. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe cultural parallel that Dawkins and his successors identified - the meme - is a whole lot less rigorous and has a non-scientific chemistry that controls its composition and its transmission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tzvee Zahavy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8798768018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798798768011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Tzvee Zahavy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072118649087,"sku":"9798798768011","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3906ff98-b110-4fea-bb51-af4703f97af7.jpg?v=1685440062","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-memes-tzvee-zahavy-9798798768011","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}