An autobiographical essay on Jewish identity from the acclaimed author of The Invention of the Jewish People.Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a &quote;secular Jew.&quote; With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the &quote;chosen people&quote; myth and its &quote;holocaust industry.&quote; Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what &quote;Jewish&quote; means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.