Leora Rosen's Books

Transformative Justice

Israeli Identity on Trial

By: Leora Yedida Bilsky

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Transformative Justice

Israeli Identity on Trial

By: Leora Yedida Bilsky

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders. Drawing on the latest work in philosophy, law, history, and rhetoric, Bilsky exposes the many narratives that compete in a political trial and demonstrates how Israel's history of social and ideological conflicts in the courtroom offers us a rare opportunity to understand the meaning of political trials. The result is a bold new perspective on the politics of justice and its complex relationship to the values of liberalism. Leora Bilsky is Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472024922

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9780472024926

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas

Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation

By: Leora Batnitzky

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Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas

Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation

By: Leora Batnitzky

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs. Strauss has influenced political theorists and policy makers on the right while Levinas has been championed in the humanities by different cadres associated with postmodernist thought. In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, first published in 2006, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that they often had the same philosophical sources and their projects had many formal parallels. While such a comparison is valuable in itself for better understanding each figure, it also raises profound questions in the debate on the definitions of 'religion', suggesting ways that religion makes claims on both philosophy and politics.

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217

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Cambridge University Press

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1139455133

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9781139455138

Idolatry and Representation

The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered

By: Leora Batnitzky

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Idolatry and Representation

The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered

By: Leora Batnitzky

Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, theology, and biblical studies. This text, which captures the hermeneutical movement of Rosenzweig's corpus, is the first to consider the full import of the cultural criticism articulated in his writings on the modern meanings of art, language, ethics, and national identity. In the process, the book solves significant conundrums about Rosenzweig's relation to German idealism, to other major Jewish thinkers, to Jewish political life, and to Christianity, and brings Rosenzweig into conversation with key contemporary thinkers. Drawing on Rosenzweig's view that Judaism's ban on idolatry is the crucial intellectual and spiritual resource available to respond to the social implications of human finitude, Batnitzky interrogates idolatry as a modern possibility. Her analysis speaks not only to the question of Judaism's relationship to modernity (and vice versa), but also to the generic question of the present's relationship to the past--a subject of great importance to anyone contemplating the modern statuses of religious tradition, reason, science, and historical inquiry. By way of Rosenzweig, Batnitzky argues that contemporary philosophers and ethicists must relearn their approaches to religious traditions and texts to address today's central ethical problems.

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Princeton University Press

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1400823587

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9781400823581

How Judaism Became a Religion

An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

By: Leora Batnitzky

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How Judaism Became a Religion

An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

By: Leora Batnitzky

Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality - or a mixture of all of these? This title tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period - and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea.

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Princeton University Press

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0691160139

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9780691160139

Taste and Power

Furnishing Modern France

By: Leora Auslander

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Taste and Power

Furnishing Modern France

By: Leora Auslander

Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

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Univ of California Press

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0520920945

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9780520920941

The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law

Unfinished Business

By: Leora Bilsky

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The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law

Unfinished Business

By: Leora Bilsky

An important examination of multinational corporations' accountability in the era of globalization and the long shadow of the Holocaust

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University of Michigan Press

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0472053612

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9780472053612

Financing Small and Medium-size Enterprises with Factoring

Global Growth and Its Potential in Eastern Europe

By: Marie-Renée Bakker,Gregory F. Udell,Leora Klapper

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Financing Small and Medium-size Enterprises with Factoring

Global Growth and Its Potential in Eastern Europe

By: Marie-Renée Bakker,Gregory F. Udell,Leora Klapper

Factoring is a form of asset-based finance where the credit is extended based on the value of the borrower's accounts receivable. In recent years factoring has experienced phenomenal growth and has become an important source of financing--especially short-term working capital--for small and medium-size enterprises and corporations, reaching a worldwide volume of 760 billion euro in 2003. Although the importance of factoring varies considerably around the world, it occurs in most countries and is growing especially quickly in many developing countries. Bakker, Klapper, and Udell explore the advantages of factoring over other types of lending for firms in developing economies, and discuss the informational, legal, tax, and regulatory barriers to its growth. They also examine the role of factoring in the eight Eastern European countries that became EU members on May 1, 2004--the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia, referred to as the EU 8. The authors conclude that factoring offers key advantages over other lending products and is likely to become more important in these countries, and suggest policies to accelerate its development. This paper--a joint product of the Finance Team, Development Research Group and the Private and Financial Sector Development Department--is part of a larger effort in the Bank to study access to financing.

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World Bank Publications

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8389188171

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9788389188175

Help for Eating Disorders

A Parents' Guide to Symptoms, Causes & Treatments

By: Debra Katzman,Leora Pinhas

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Help for Eating Disorders

A Parents' Guide to Symptoms, Causes & Treatments

By: Debra Katzman,Leora Pinhas

Most teenagers have a friend who has been affected by an eating disorder. Such disorders affect almost 20% of teenage girls in North America at some point in their development. Magazines and movies constantly stress a thin body image as the defining force for popularity. The message teenagers get is that thin is the only route to popularity and happiness. Through the Eating Disorder Program, Drs. Katzman and Pinhas, at The Hospital for Sick Children, have developed a program that helps young people and their parents deal with the problems of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. First, the book shows parents how to identify an eating disorder and when to become concerned about it. Second, there is vital information for parents on how to become informed users of the health care system and how to collaborate in their child's treatment. Third, practical support for parents, family members and coaches enables them to participate in the recovery of a child or adolescent with an eating disorder. Worksheets, diaries and first-person case studies assists parents and caregivers to help youth overcome an eating disorder.

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R.Rose

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0778801152

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9780778801153

The Military Family

A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers

By: James Martin,Leora Rosen,Linette Sparacino

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The Military Family

A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers

By: James Martin,Leora Rosen,Linette Sparacino

Today, there are more military family members than there are total uniformed service members. Sixty percent of the military are married, including more than eighty percent of all career-status personnel, and many have small children. They come from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and they represent a wide variety of family types, including single parents, dual career military couples, and families with eldercare responsibilities. In an effort to cut costs, many of the services utilized by military families are being privatized or outsourced to civilian service providers. This guide is designed to benefit anyone who provides services to these families, particularly those who may have little or no prior knowledge of the unique nature of military families and military family life. This book contains research-based information about the unique needs of military families across various duty-related conditions, as well as within the context of military career demands. Its multi-service focus addresses the provision of human services in both peace and wartime. Topics include military spouse employment, retirement issues, family support during deployments, the New Parent Support Program, and the experiences of adult children of military parents. The authors encourage an understanding of military community-based programs and services, and they offer the reader numerous resources for collaboration with the military community.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313096317

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9780313096310

The Cold War Period, 1945-1992

By: Leora Maltz

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The Cold War Period, 1945-1992

By: Leora Maltz

Presents nearly thirty essays and primary documents on thepolitical, cultural, and social struggles and changes that shaped America in the years of the Cold War, from 1945 to 1992; and includes a detailed chronology and a.

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Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

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0737711469

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9780737711462

The Military Family

A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers

By: James Martin,Leora Rosen,Linette Sparacino

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The Military Family

A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers

By: James Martin,Leora Rosen,Linette Sparacino

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Travels in Iceland

By: Leora Rosen

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Travels in Iceland

By: Leora Rosen

A photographic journey through the northern and southern regions of Iceland

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1719989516

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Book's by Leora Rosen

Transformative Justice

Transformative Justice

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas

Idolatry and Representation

Idolatry and Representation

How Judaism Became a Religion

How Judaism Became a Religion

Taste and Power

Taste and Power

The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law

The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law

Financing Small and Medium-size Enterprises with Factoring

Financing Small and Medium-size Enterprises with Factoring

Help for Eating Disorders

Help for Eating Disorders

The Military Family

The Military Family

The Cold War Period, 1945-1992

The Cold War Period, 1945-1992

The Military Family

The Military Family

Travels in Iceland

Travels in Iceland

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