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In Defense of Human Rights

A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

By: Ari Kohen

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In Defense of Human Rights

A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

By: Ari Kohen

The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to the furthering of the human rights agenda. This book establishes an equally compelling non-religious foundation for the idea of human rights, engaging with the writings of many key thinkers in the field, including Michael J. Perry, Alan Gewirth, Ronald Dworkin and Richard Rorty. Ari Kohen draws on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a political consensus of overlapping ideas from cultures and communities around the world that establishes the dignity of humans and argues that this dignity gives rise to collective human rights. In constructing this consensus, we have succeeded in establishing a practical non-religious foundation upon which the idea of human rights can rest. In Defense of Human Rights will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, philosophy, religious studies and human rights.

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In Defense of Human Rights

A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

By: Ari Kohen

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A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

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Antisemitism on the Rise

The 1930s and Today

By: Ari Kohen

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Antisemitism on the Rise

The 1930s and Today

By: Ari Kohen

We live in uncertain and unsettling times. Tragically, today's global culture is rife with violent bigotry, nationalism, and antisemitism. The rhetoric is not new; it is grounded in attitudes and values from the 1930s and the 1940s in Europe and the United States. Antisemitism on the Rise is a collection of essays by some of the world's leading experts, including Joseph Bendersky, Jean Cahan, R. Amy Elman, Leonard Greenspoon, and Jürgen Matthäus, regarding two key moments in antisemitic history: the interwar period and today. Ari Kohen and Gerald J. Steinacher have collected important examples on this crucial topic to illustrate new research findings and learning techniques that have become increasingly vital with the recent rise of white supremacist movements, many of which have a firm root in antisemitism. Part 1 focuses on the antisemitic beliefs and ideas that were predominant during the 1930s and 1940s, while part 2 draws comparisons between this period and today, including examples of ways to teach others about contemporary antisemitism. The volume seeks to inform readers about the historical progression of antisemitism and in doing so asks readers to think about what is at stake and how to bridge the gap between research and teaching.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496228464

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Untangling Heroism

Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero

By: Ari Kohen

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Untangling Heroism

Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero

By: Ari Kohen

The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act heroically and what prevents other people from being heroes? In our culture today, what makes one sort of hero appear more heroic than another sort? In order to answer these questions, Ari Kohen turns to classical conceptions of the hero to explain the confusion and to highlight the ways in which distinct heroic categories can be useful at different times. Untangling Heroism argues for the existence of three categories of heroism that can be traced back to the earliest Western literature – the epic poetry of Homer and the dialogues of Plato – and that are complex enough to resonate with us and assist us in thinking about heroism today. Kohen carefully examines the Homeric heroes Achilles and Odysseus and Plato’s Socrates, and then compares the three to each other. He makes clear how and why it is that the other-regarding hero, Socrates, supplanted the battlefield hero, Achilles, and the suffering hero, Odysseus. Finally, he explores in detail four cases of contemporary heroism that highlight Plato’s success. Kohen states that in a post-Socratic world, we have chosen to place a premium on heroes who make other-regarding choices over self-interested ones. He argues that when humans face the fact of their mortality, they are able to think most clearly about the sort of life they want to have lived, and only in doing that does heroic action become a possibility. Kohen’s careful analysis and rethinking of the heroism concept will be relevant to scholars across the disciplines of political science, philosophy, literature, and classics.

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The Formation of the Talmud

Scholarship and Politics in Yitzhak Isaac Halevy’s Dorot Harishonim

By: Ari Bergmann

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The Formation of the Talmud

Scholarship and Politics in Yitzhak Isaac Halevy’s Dorot Harishonim

By: Ari Bergmann

This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s historical model of the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, which, he argued, was edited by an academy of rabbis beginning in the fourth century and ending by the sixth century. Halevy's model also served as a blueprint for the rabbinic council of Agudath Israel, the Orthodox political body in whose founding he played a leading role. Foreword by Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of How Do We Know This? Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism, among other works.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110709961

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Echoes of Eden: Sefer Shmot

By: Ari D. Kahn

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Echoes of Eden: Sefer Shmot

By: Ari D. Kahn

Echoes of Sinai completes a five-volume work on the weekly Torah portion, published jointly by Gefen Publishing House and the OU.

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Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: Ari Ariel

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Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: Ari Ariel

In Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ari Ariel analyzes the impact of local, regional and international events on ethnic and religious relations in Yemen and Yemeni Jewish migration patterns. Previous research has dealt with single episodes of Yemenite migration during limited spans of time. Ariel, instead, provides a broad sweep of the migratory flows over the 70 year time span during which most of Yemen’s Jews moved to Palestine and then Israel. He successfully avoids the polemic nature of much of the literature on Middle Eastern Jewry by focusing on the social, economic and political transformations that provoked and then sustained this migration.

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BRILL

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9004265376

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Echoes of Eden

Sefer Bereishit

By: Ari D. Kahn

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Echoes of Eden

Sefer Bereishit

By: Ari D. Kahn

Echoes of Sinai completes a five-volume work on the weekly Torah portion, published jointly by Gefen Publishing House and the OU.

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9652294993

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Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

By: Ari Ben-Menahem

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Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

By: Ari Ben-Menahem

This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540688315

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Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation

The Infinite God and the Expanding Torah

By: Ari Ackerman

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Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation

The Infinite God and the Expanding Torah

By: Ari Ackerman

This work focuses on the conception of God of the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It demonstrates that Crescas’ God is infinitely creative and good and explores the parallel that Crescas implicitly draws between God as creator and legislator.

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9004518657

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Untangling Heroism

Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero

By: Ari Kohen

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Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero

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Jews and the Law

By: Ari Mermelstein,Victoria Saker Woeste,Ethan Zadoff,Marc Galanter

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Jews and the Law

By: Ari Mermelstein,Victoria Saker Woeste,Ethan Zadoff,Marc Galanter

Jews are a people of law, and law defines who the Jewish people are and what they believe. This anthology engages with the growing complexity of what it is to be Jewish — and, more problematically, what it means to be at once Jewish and participate in secular legal systems as lawyers, judges, legal thinkers, civil rights advocates, and teachers. The essays in this book trace the history and chart the sociology of the Jewish legal profession over time, revealing new stories and dimensions of this significant aspect of the American Jewish experience and at the same time exploring the impact of Jewish lawyers and law firms on American legal practice. “This superb collection reveals what an older focus on assimilation obscured. Jewish lawyers wanted to ‘make it,’ but they also wanted to make law and the legal profession different and better. These fascinating essays show how, despite considerable obstacles, they succeeded.” — Daniel R. Ernst Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Author of Tocqueville’s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940 “This fascinating collection of essays by distinguished scholars illuminates the distinctive and intricate relationship between Jews and law. Exploring the various roles of Jewish lawyers in the United States, Germany, and Israel, they reveal how the practice of law has variously expressed, reinforced, or muted Jewish identity as lawyers demonstrated their commitments to the public interest, social justice, Jewish tradition, or personal ambition. Any student of law, lawyers, or Jewish values will be engaged by the questions asked and answered.” — Jerold S. Auerbach Professor Emeritus of History, Wellesley College Author of Unequal Justice and Rabbis and Lawyers

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Being Jewish

The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today

By: Ari L. Goldman

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Being Jewish

The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today

By: Ari L. Goldman

What does it mean to be Jewish in the 21st century? Goldman offers eloquent, thoughtful answers to this and other questions through an absorbing exploration of modern Judaism.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416536027

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Trees, Earth, and Torah

A Tu B'Shvat Anthology

By: Ari Elon

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Trees, Earth, and Torah

A Tu B'Shvat Anthology

By: Ari Elon

Exploring childbirth from within a Jewish tradition, the author of New Lifedraws on folklore, prayers, folk remedies, and biblical, rabbinical, and mystical literature to discuss Jewish beliefs, values, and customs concerning the birth of a child. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Reprint.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827607172

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Antisemitism on the Rise

The 1930s and Today

By: Ari Kohen

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Antisemitism on the Rise

The 1930s and Today

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Echoes of Eden

Sefer Bereishit

By: Ari D. Kahn

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Echoes of Eden

Sefer Bereishit

By: Ari D. Kahn

Echoes of Sinai completes a five-volume work on the weekly Torah portion, published jointly by Gefen Publishing House and the OU.

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Echoes of Eden

Sefer Vayikra

By: Ari D. Kahn

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Echoes of Eden

Sefer Vayikra

By: Ari D. Kahn

We strive for holiness, but the quest is so elusive. And yet, the path toward holiness is embedded within the Torahs words, for all who seek to grapple with them. With striking insight, Rabbi Ari Kahn draws out of the book of Vayikra meaningful instructions for attaining holiness -- in our nation, in our relationships with our loved ones, and within ourselves. Also, entitled In Search of Holiness, this is the third in a five-volume Me'orei Ha'Aish: Fire and Flame series on the weekly Torah portion, published jointly by Gefen Publishing House and the OU.

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9652295922

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Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism

Community and Identity in Formation

By: Ari Mermelstein

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Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism

Community and Identity in Formation

By: Ari Mermelstein

In this book, Ari Mermelstein examines the mutually-reinforcing relationship between power and emotion in ancient Judaism. Ancient Jewish writers in both Palestine and the diaspora contended that Jewish identity entails not simply allegiance to God and performance of the commandments but also the acquisition of specific emotional norms. These rules regarding feeling were both shaped by and responses to networks of power - God, the foreign empire, and other groups of Jews - which threatened Jews' sense of agency. According to these writers, emotional communities that felt Jewish would succeed in neutralizing the power wielded over them by others and, depending on the circumstances, restore their power to acculturate, maintain their Jewish identity, and achieve redemption. An important contribution to the history of emotions, this book argues that power relations are the basis for historical changes in emotion discourse.

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