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Martin Buber

The Hidden Dialogue

By: Dan Avnon

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In this volume, Dan Avnon analyzes and reconstructs Buber's corpus of mature writings, revealing the radical nature of Buber's response to the most fundamental questions of human existence. The book invites the reader to reexamine conventional notions of the role of language, thought, and writing in communicating impressions of reality. An essential introduction to Buber's work and his unique approach to writing.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847686884

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9780847686889

Martin Buber

The Hidden Dialogue

By: Dan Avnon

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The Hidden Dialogue

By: Dan Avnon

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The Book of the People

The Hebrew Encyclopedic Project and the National Self

By: Dan Tsahor

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The Book of the People

The Hebrew Encyclopedic Project and the National Self

By: Dan Tsahor

Hebrew encyclopedias have an intriguing history. The genre, which began as modest initiatives to disseminate general knowledge and strengthen literacy among Russian Jews, quickly became the most popular in modern Hebrew literature, with tens of thousands of subscribers to publications such as Encyclopaedia Hebraica and Encyclopaedia Biblica. The makers of these vast bodies of knowledge hoped to demonstrate Hebrew’s mimetic power and the vitality of newly created Jewish research institutions. They also hoped that the encyclopedias would be an essential tool in shaping and reshaping Zionist national culture and nurturing an ideal national persona. Thus, the printed pages of the encyclopedias give us unique access to what Zionists were saying about themselves, how they perceived their neighbors, and what they were hoping for the future, thereby going beyond the official Zionists documents, newspaper articles, and the writings of intellectuals that have been used extensively by historians to narrate national consciousness. By bringing to the fore these unique texts, The Book of the People presents common perceptions of memory and collective identity that often do not fit with the narratives offered by historians of Zionism. In doing so, the book also exposes ethical codes that regulated the production of Zionist knowledge and endowed the encyclopedias with a rare status as a bona fide source for truths by people from diverse political and social backgrounds.

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230

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111062465

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9783111062464

Trouble in Utopia

The Overburdened Polity of Israel

By: Dan Horowitz,Moshe Lissak

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Trouble in Utopia

The Overburdened Polity of Israel

By: Dan Horowitz,Moshe Lissak

This book provides a thorough and detailed examination of Israeli institutions and how they function. It explains the decline in effectiveness of the government and the spread of cultural malaise in the Israel of the eighties. Horowitz and Lissak trace the integrative and disintegrative trends in Israel and show how a society that had laid the foundations for a cohesive Jewish nation-state became increasingly vulnerable to centrifugal forces. The book not only reflects a broad and comprehensive approach, but also focuses on themes that cut across institutional structures, such as the weakening of social and political cohesion in an overburdened polity.

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State University of New York Press

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1438407084

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9781438407081

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