Discussion Questions (Part 2) - After Reading
- If Angela Warnick Buchdahl were to do the 5 part identity activity we did earlier, how might she have filled out her card?
- What made Angela uncomfortable with her identity?
- Has there ever been a situation in which your identity has made you uncomfortable or the actions of others have caused you to question some part of your identity?
- Do you agree or disagree with Angela's mother? Is it possible to change your identity? Why or why not?
- Angela Warnick Buchdahl describes a changing Jewish community. Do you think if she were a child today she would be more comfortable with her identity? What role do you think community plays in identity?
- Angela mentions the "many competing identities that the name 'Jew' signifies." What do you think some of these identities might be? Do you struggle with any of them?
- Revisit the assumptions made about Angela Warnick Buchdahl and her article before you read it. How many of the assumptions were correct? How many were inaccurate? To what degree do we judge someone else's identity by visual clues and/or names?
