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The Last Days in Israel

Understanding the New Israeli Democracy

By: Abraham Diskin

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The Last Days in Israel

Understanding the New Israeli Democracy

By: Abraham Diskin

During the 1990s many dramatic changes influenced the basic characteristics of the Israeli democracy. This volume examines the challenges and circumstances the country has faced and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security". The book also investigates the renewed constitutional framework which attempted to meet new challenges, but in reality contributed to the evolution of "new politics" and a new party system. This new system is explored through an analytical study of the history of the party system with an emphasis on new phenomena, such as the growing fragmentation of recent years. Developments since the early 1990s are also examined, looking at the governmental periods of Prime Ministers: Shamir, Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu and Barak.

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Routledge

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1135759448

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9781135759445

One a Day

An Anthology of Jewish Historical Anniversaries for Every Day of the Year

By: Abraham P. Bloch

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One a Day

An Anthology of Jewish Historical Anniversaries for Every Day of the Year

By: Abraham P. Bloch

Index. "The chronicles collected in this book originally appeared in the weekly Jewish Post & Opinion from 1970 to 1984" - Pref.

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404

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KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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0881251089

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9780881251081

The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

Contradiction and Meaning in City Form

By: Abraham Akkerman

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The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

Contradiction and Meaning in City Form

By: Abraham Akkerman

Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on cities. Howard had envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch, fashioned on single family homes with small gardens. Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods emphasizing the verve of the living street. From Howard's idea, the American Dream of garden suburbs had emerged, yet his conceptualization of a modern city received criticism for being uniform and alienated from the rest of the city. Similarly, at the turn of the new century, Jacobs' inner-city neighbourhoods came to be recognized as the result of commodification, vacillating between poverty and newly discovered hubs of urban authenticity. Presenting Howard and Jacobs within a psychocultural context, The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard addresses our urban crisis in the recognition that "city form" is a gendered, allegorical medium expressing femininity and masculinity within two founding features of the built environment: void and volume. Both founding contrasts bring tensions, but also the opportunities of fusion between pairs of urban polarities: human scale against superscale, gait against speed, and spontaneity against surveillance. Jacobs and Howard, in their respective attitudes, have come to embrace the two ancient archetypes, the Garden and the Citadel, leaving it to future generations to blend their two contrarian stances.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487501269

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9781487501266

The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance

The Jordanian Factor

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

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The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance

The Jordanian Factor

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

This book demonstrates that the origins of the US-Israeli alliance lay in the former's concern over Egyptian influence in Jordan, contrasting with the widely-held view of the significance of the Six Day War. The American-Israeli Alliance will be of great interest to students of Middle East studies, history, and politics.

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Routledge

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1134129041

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Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity

Collected Essays, 1959–2012, by Abraham J. Malherbe

By: Abraham J. Malherbe

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Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity

Collected Essays, 1959–2012, by Abraham J. Malherbe

By: Abraham J. Malherbe

Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the “background” against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning over fifty years, illustrate Malherbe’s appreciation of the complexities of this ecology and what is required to explore philological and conceptual connections between early Christian writers, especially Paul and Athenagoras, and their literary counterparts who participated in the religious and philosophical discourse of the wider culture. Malherbe’s essays laid the groundwork for his magisterial commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence and launched the contemporary study of Hellenistic moral philosophy and early Christianity.

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BRILL

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9004256520

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9789004256521

The United States and Israel

The Limits of the Special Relationship

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

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The United States and Israel

The Limits of the Special Relationship

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

Ben-Zvi also shows how former Prime Minister Shamir's decision to build settlements in the occupied territories aggravated an already tense situation between the U.S. and Israel, and he concludes with comments on the Gulf War and the return to power of the Labor Party in 1992.

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Columbia University Press

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0231081847

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9780231081849

Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

By: Abraham J. Karp

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Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

By: Abraham J. Karp

Presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation may be the last. In the United States, the Jewish community has faced to a heightened degree the enduring question of identity and assimilation: How does the Jewish community in this free, open, pluralistic society discover or create factors-both ideological and existential-that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew? Abraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions-Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative-and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism. Informing the larger enterprise through sharp and full delineation of discrete endeavors, the essays collected in Jewish Continuity in America-some already acknowledged as classics, some appearing here for the first time-describe creative individual and communal responses to the challenge of Jewish survival. As the title suggests, this book argues that continuity in a free and open society demands a high order of creativity, a creativity that, to be viable, must be anchored in institutions wholly pledged to continuity.

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318

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358226

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9780817358228

Living Each Day

By: Abraham J. Twerski

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Living Each Day

By: Abraham J. Twerski

LIVING EACH DAY provides an inspirational message and an appropriate prayer for every single day of the year, in a convenient daily calendar format with room for daily notes. They are perfect companions for daily doses of strength and thought.

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Mesorah Publications

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0899065600

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9780899065601

Strong Religion

The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World

By: Gabriel A. Almond,R. Scott Appleby,Emmanuel Sivan

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Strong Religion

The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World

By: Gabriel A. Almond,R. Scott Appleby,Emmanuel Sivan

After the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, religious fundamentalism has dominated public debate as never before. Policymakers, educators, and the general public all want to know: Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights, security, and democratic forms of government? What is the future of fundamentalism? To answer questions like these, Strong Religion draws on the results of the Fundamentalism Project, a decade-long interdisciplinary study of antimodernist, antisecular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions. The authors of this study analyze the various social structures, cultural contexts, and political environments in which fundamentalist movements have emerged around the world, from the Islamic Hamas and Hizbullah to the Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries of Northern Ireland, and from the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition of the United States to the Sikh radicals and Hindu nationalists of India. Offering a vividly detailed portrait of the cultures that nourish such movements, Strong Religion opens a much-needed window onto different modes of fundamentalism and identifies the kind of historical events that can trigger them.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226014983

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9780226014982

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel

In the Shadow of the Hawk

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel

In the Shadow of the Hawk

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

This book seeks to reconstruct and elucidate the processes behind the decisions made by the Johnson Administration during the years 1965-68 to sell Israel M-48 tanks, A-4 Skyhawk planes and F-4 Phantom planes.

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Psychology Press

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0714655805

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Book's by Abraham Diskin

The Last Days in Israel

The Last Days in Israel

One a Day

One a Day

The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance

The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance

Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity

Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity

The United States and Israel

The United States and Israel

Jewish Continuity in America

Jewish Continuity in America

Living Each Day

Living Each Day

Strong Religion

Strong Religion

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel

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