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The Hebrew Republic

How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last

By: Bernard Avishai

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The Hebrew Republic

How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last

By: Bernard Avishai

Political economist Bernard Avishai has been writing and thinking about Israel since moving there to volunteer during the 1967 War. now he synthesizes his years of study and searching into a short, urgent polemic that posits that the country must become a more complete democracy if it has any chance for a peaceful future. He explores the connection between Israel’s democratic crisis and the problems besetting the nation—the expansion of settlements, the alienation of Israeli Arabs, and the exploding ultraorthodox population. He also makes an intriguing case for Israel’s new global enterprises to change the country’s future for the better. With every year, peace in Israel seems to recede further into the distance, while Israeli arts and businesses advance. This contradiction cannot endure much longer. But in cutting through the inflammatory arguments of partisans on all sides, Avishai offers something even more enticing than pragmatic solutions—he offers hope.

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HarperCollins

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0547540205

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9780547540207

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"Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

By: Bernard Avishai

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"Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

By: Bernard Avishai

An in-depth look at Phillip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint examines his own writings, teaching notes and personal interviews about the novel, the Jewish community's outrage over the book, Roth's critique of psychoanalysis within its pages and much more.

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Yale University Press

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030015190X

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9780300151909

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"Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

By: Bernard Avishai

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"Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

By: Bernard Avishai

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Yale University Press

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030015190X

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9780300151909

The Battle for Eretz Yisrael

Jews, G-D and Israel, 1992–2011

By: Bernard J. Shapiro

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The Battle for Eretz Yisrael

Jews, G-D and Israel, 1992–2011

By: Bernard J. Shapiro

From the sweet taste of victory to shattering betrayal, The Battle for Eretz Yisrael documents the years from 1992 to 2011 as Israel attempts to gain its identity. Rendering the full impact of the Israeli struggle, this analysis contains a collection of articles, political cartoons, maps, mementos, flyers, and poetry written and compiled by author Bernard J. Shapiro, the founder and chairman of the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies in Houston, Texas. The articles span nineteen years and include a wide range of topics related to the Israeli struggle. The Battle for Eretz Yisrael discusses Israeli, Jewish, and world history; Arab wars of extermination against Israel; military and strategic issues; Israeli political issues; US and Israeli relations; Islam; and Arab propaganda and media bias. A strong advocate for Israel for more than fifty years, Shapiro provides an insiders look at this historic and contemporary issue that affects people all over the world

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709

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iUniverse

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1462001912

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9781462001910

Blaming the Jews

Politics and Delusion

By: Bernard Harrison

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Blaming the Jews

Politics and Delusion

By: Bernard Harrison

In recent years Western countries have seen a proliferation of antisemitic material in social media, and attacks on Jews such as that on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Much of this has stemmed, not from personal hostility to Jews on the part of this or that individual, but from a resurgence in groups at both ends of politics of the ancient delusion that "the Jews" collectively dominate world affairs and lie at the root of all the world's evils. In Blaming the Jews author Bernard Harrison, offers a new and unique analysis of this second and far more dangerous form of antisemitism and its persistence as a cultural phenomenon. Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets only Jews, he demonstrates that, allowed to go unrecognised or unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all. In a world where rhetoric is fashioned on stereotypes and driven by political ideology, Harrison argues it is our responsibility to be vigilant in exposing the delusions of antisemitism and their consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.

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Indiana University Press

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0253052491

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9780253052490

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

By: Bernard Yack

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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

By: Bernard Yack

Nationalism is one of modern history’s great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of our understanding of community—and especially the moral psychology that animates it—that has made this question so difficult to answer. Yack develops a broader and more flexible theory of community and shows how to use it in the study of nations and nationalism. What makes nationalism such a powerful and morally problematic force in our lives is the interplay of old feelings of communal loyalty and relatively new beliefs about popular sovereignty. By uncovering this fraught relationship, Yack moves our understanding of nationalism beyond the oft-rehearsed debate between primordialists and modernists, those who exaggerate our loss of individuality and those who underestimate the depth of communal attachments. A brilliant and compelling book, Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community sets out a revisionist conception of nationalism that cannot be ignored.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226944689

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9780226944685

Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project

Ideology, Politics, and Civil Disobedience

By: Moshe Hellinger,Isaac Hershkowitz,Bernard Susser

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Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project

Ideology, Politics, and Civil Disobedience

By: Moshe Hellinger,Isaac Hershkowitz,Bernard Susser

The Jewish settlements in disputed territories are among the most contentious issues in Israeli and international politics. This book delves into the ideological and rabbinic discourses of the religious Zionists who founded the settlement movement and lead it to this day. Based on Hebrew primary sources seldom available to scholars and the public, Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz, and Bernard Susser provide an authoritative history of the settlement project. They examine the first attempts at settling in the 1970s, the evacuation of Sinai in the 1980s, the Oslo Accords and assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in the 1990s, and the withdrawal from Gaza and the reaction of radical settler groups in the 2000s. The authors question why the evacuation of settlements led to largely theatrical opposition, without mass violence or civil war. They show that for religious Zionists, a "theological-normative balance" undermined their will to resist aggressively because of a deep veneration for the state as the sacred vehicle of redemption.

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State University of New York Press

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1438468407

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The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism

Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion

By: Bernard Harrison

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The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism

Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion

By: Bernard Harrison

Recently, Jewish voices have begun to warn against a 'new anti-Semitism' fueled by moral concerns about Israel. Opponents have retorted that opposition to 'Zionism' is by no means anti-Semitic. This book, by a non-Jewish analytic philosopher, assesses the relative merits of these opposed views and offers a detailed examination of the moral and intellectual credentials of the widespread current of opinion whose growth underlies both.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742552276

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9780742552272

Haunted by Paradise

A Philosopher's Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions

By: James Bernard Murphy

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Haunted by Paradise

A Philosopher's Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions

By: James Bernard Murphy

The Bible today is weaponized by both liberals and conservatives, side cherry-picking their favorite verses. Have you ever wondered why the Bible lends itself to supporting contradictory positions in moral debates—why even the devil quotes Scripture? If so, you will enjoy this book. Haunted by Paradise reveals the unity and coherence of the Bible in the light of paradise. The Bible begins in Eden and ends in the new Jerusalem—in between, the Bible is haunted by the memory of paradise lost and the hope for paradise regained. With paradise as the interpretive key, Murphy unlocks biblical ethics. He shows that there is no Old Testament ethics or New Testament ethics—only a unified biblical ethics. In sixteen short chapters, this book addresses urgent moral questions about issues ranging from capital punishment to war, including divine justice, homosexuality, marriage, nature, racism, patriarchy, and work. In each chapter, Murphy shows how the Bible negotiates the tension between divine ideals and human realities.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725269066

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9781725269064

Facing the Fires

Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua

By: Bernard Horn

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Facing the Fires

Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua

By: Bernard Horn

In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel’s greatest living novelist, to an English-speaking audience. Yehoshua is also his country’s most audacious thinker about politics, culture, history, and Jewish identity. Yehoshua’s achievement has been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. A lively, controversial, and prophetic voice in his homeland, Yehoshua rigorously tests his community’s deepest pieties: religion, Zionism, and the agony of the Holocaust. A Jew who does not believe in God, he is a committed Zionist and member of the “peace camp” in Israel that welcomed the Palestinian uprising of 1987. In the tradition of the Paris Review interviews, Horn’s conversations with Yehoshua reveal the intricate play of literary, psychological, mythological, and political motifs in the novelist’s work. Stimulated by a warm friendship between the two scholars, the intellectual energy of Facing the Fires offers readers a pleasure they might expect only from fiction.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815604939

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9780815604938

The Languages of Israel

Policy, Ideology, and Practice

By: Bernard Spolsky,Elana Goldberg Shohamy

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The Languages of Israel

Policy, Ideology, and Practice

By: Bernard Spolsky,Elana Goldberg Shohamy

The practice and ideology of the treatment of the languages of Israel are examined in this book. It asks about the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attribited to explicit language planning activities.

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Multilingual Matters

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1853594512

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9781853594519

On Opera

By: Bernard Williams

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On Opera

By: Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams, who died in 2003, was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation. A lifelong opera lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This elegant volume brings together these widely scattered and largely unobtainable pieces, including two that have not been previously published. It covers an engaging range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including sparkling essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. Reflecting Williams's brilliance, passion, and clarity of mind, these essays engage with, and illustrate, the enduring appeal of opera as an art form.

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Yale University Press

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0300089767

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The Holocaust's Ghost

Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By: F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz

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The Holocaust's Ghost

Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By: F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz

Numerous scholars explore the moral, aesthetic, and political outcomes of the Holocuast from the perspectives of various academic backgrounds, including: art, literature, political science, education and history.

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University of Alberta

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0888643373

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9780888643377

The Israeli Republic

An Iranian Revolutionary's Journey to the Jewish State

By: Jalal Al-e Ahmad,Simin Daneshvar,Bernard Avishai

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The Israeli Republic

An Iranian Revolutionary's Journey to the Jewish State

By: Jalal Al-e Ahmad,Simin Daneshvar,Bernard Avishai

The Israeli Republic "suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism and the West. That a writer such as Al-e Ahmad, guru to the ayatollahs, liked Israel now seems touching. What he liked about Israel seems cautionary." —Bernard Avishai, Foreign Affairs Written by a preeminent Iranian writer who helped lay the popular groundwork for the Iranian Revolution, The Israeli Republic should be required reading for anyone interested in the history and current political landscape of the Middle East. Documenting Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s two-week-long trip to Israel in February of 1963, his account “Journey to the Land of Israel” caused a firestorm when it was published in Iran, upsetting the very revolutionary clerics whose anti-Western sentiments Al-e Ahmad himself had fueled. Yet, in the thriving Jewish State, Jalal Al-e Ahmad saw a model for a possible future Iran. Based on his controversial travelogue, supplemented with letters between the author and his wife, Simin Daneshvar (the first major Iranian woman novelist), and translated into English for the first time, The Israeli Republic is a record of Al-e Ahmad’s idealism, insight, and ultimate disillusionment toward Israel. Vibrantly modern in its sensibility and fearlessly polemical, this book will change the way you think about the Middle East.

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The Hebrew Republic

The Hebrew Republic

Promiscuous

Promiscuous

Promiscuous

Promiscuous

The Battle for Eretz Yisrael

The Battle for Eretz Yisrael

Blaming the Jews

Blaming the Jews

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project

Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project

The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism

The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism

Haunted by Paradise

Haunted by Paradise

Facing the Fires

Facing the Fires

The Languages of Israel

The Languages of Israel

On Opera

On Opera

The Holocaust's Ghost

The Holocaust's Ghost

The Israeli Republic

The Israeli Republic

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