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Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews

Volume XXII

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews

Volume XXII

By: Peter Y. Medding

Volume XXII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the major and rapid changes experienced by a population known variously as "Sephardim," "Oriental" Jews and "Mizrahim" over the last fifty years. Although Sephardim are popularly believed to have originated in Spain or Portugal, the majority of Mizrahi Jews today are actually the descendants of Jews from Muslim and Arab countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. They constitute a growing proportion of Israeli Jewry and continue to revitalize Jewish culture in places as varied as France, Latin America, and the United States. Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews offers a collection of new scholarship on the issues of self-definition and identity facing Sephardic Jewry. The essays draw on a variety of disciplines--demography, history, political science, sociology, religious and gender studies, anthropology, and literature. Contributors explore the issues surrounding the emergence and increasingly wide usage of "Mizrahi" in place of "Sephardic," as well as the invigoration of Sephardic Judaism. They look at the evolution of Sephardic politics in Israel through the dramatic rise and continuing influence of the Shas political party and its spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Other contributors examine the variegated nature of Mizrahi immigration to Israel, fictional portraits of female Mizrahi immigrants to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s, contemporary Mizrahi Israel feminism, modern Arab historiography's portrayal of Jews of Muslim lands, and the changing Sephardic halakhic tradition.

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Mapai in Israel: Political Organisation and Government in a New Society

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Mapai in Israel: Political Organisation and Government in a New Society

By: Peter Y. Medding

This work explains how Mapai governed Israel from 1948 to 1969 when it became a partner to the Israeli Labour Party.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521144515

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The Founding of Israeli Democracy, 1948-1967

By: Peter Y. Medding

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The Founding of Israeli Democracy, 1948-1967

By: Peter Y. Medding

Israel is the only new state among the twenty-one countries in the world today that have maintained democracy without interruption since the end of the Second World War. Israel's case is all the more notable because its democracy was established under extremely adverse conditions: massive immigration; severe social dislocation; the introduction of ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and national differences; rapid economic growth; a permanent security threat that led to five major wars in thirty-five years; and a population that, in the main, had little or no experience of a democratic order. In this insightful study of Israel's founding period from 1948 to 1967, Peter Medding addresses this puzzle, providing a lucid account of the political and historical conditions that gave rise to this distinctive period, as well as the changes which brought it to an end. The result is an eminently readable account of the state-building process and of the role played by David Ben-Gurion and other politicians in moving from consensus politics to a majoritarian-like democracy. Medding's analysis is further enriched by his comparisons of the development of Israeli democracy with that of other countries.

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Oxford University Press

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019536354X

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Religious Fundamentalism

Global, Local and Personal

By: Peter Herriot

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Religious Fundamentalism

Global, Local and Personal

By: Peter Herriot

How does a religious fundamentalist come to embrace a counter-cultural world view? Fundamentalism can be analysed from a variety of perspectives. It is a type of belief system which enables individuals to make sense of their lives and provides them with an identity. It is a social phenomenon, in which strictly religious people act according to the norms, values, and beliefs of the group to which they belong. It is a cultural product, in the sense that different cultural settings result in different forms of fundamentalism. And it is a global phenomenon, in the obvious sense that it is to be found everywhere, and also because it is both a reaction against, and also a part of, the globalising modern world. Religious Fundamentalism deals with all of these four levels of analysis, uniquely combining sociological and psychological perspectives, and relating them to each other. Each chapter is followed by a lengthy case study, and these range from a close textual analysis of George W. Bush’s second inaugural speech through to a treatment of Al-Qaida as a global media event. This book provides a comprehensive social scientific perspective on a subject of immense contemporary significance, and should be of use both to university students and also to students of the contemporary world.

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Routledge

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1134101619

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America's Religions

From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century

By: Peter W. Williams

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America's Religions

From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century

By: Peter W. Williams

A panoramic introduction to religion in America, newly revised and updated

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University of Illinois Press

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025207551X

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Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection

Kraven's Last Hunt

By: Peter David,David Michelinie,J.M. Dematteis,Jim Owsley,Various

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Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection

Kraven's Last Hunt

By: Peter David,David Michelinie,J.M. Dematteis,Jim Owsley,Various

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #289-294 And Annual #20-21, Spider-Man Versus Wolverine, Web Of Spider-Man (1985) #29-32 And Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #131-132. Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are getting married! But Kraven the Hunter is going to make sure the wall-crawler ends up six feet under literally! It begins with an all-time classic encounter with Wolverine that changes Spideys life forever, leading to the death of one of his best friends! In the wake of tragedy, Peter pops the question but the honeymoon is short-lived, as Kraven goes to extreme lengths to prove himself superior to his greatest foe! As one of comics most introspective, psychological sagas ever unfolds, the Hunter will learn that its one thing to defeat Spider-Man but another to expect him to stay down!

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1302498134

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The Founding of Israeli Democracy, 1948-1967

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Rubens

The Life of Christ After the Passion

By: David Freedberg,Peter Paul Rubens

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The Life of Christ After the Passion

By: David Freedberg,Peter Paul Rubens

Such are the characteristics of Rubens's compositions of the Life of Christ after the Passion, and these are some of the problems they raise. They count amongst his most popular compositions, as witnessed by the large number of surviving copies after individual works, or after elements within them. They were mostly painted in the decade after Rubens's return to Antwerp from Italy, at a time when his reputation was being firmly established. A wide range of primarily local patrons commissioned them, and certain subjects were painted with striking frequency. But despite the exigencies of patronage and iconography, all bear testimony to the extraordinary originality of Rubens's art, an originality tempered by his keen awareness of the achievements of Italian art and a deep understanding of the Netherlandish tradition. And whatever the role assigned to his assistants in the purely mechanical aspects of the execution of these works, we are rarely left in doubt about the fluency of his painting, the faultless effectiveness of his drawing, and the fertility of his invention."--Introduction, page 28

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0199210322

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Mapai in Israel: Political Organisation and Government in a New Society

By: Peter Y. Medding

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This work explains how Mapai governed Israel from 1948 to 1969 when it became a partner to the Israeli Labour Party.

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century

By: Peter Y. Medding

How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, presents a variety of perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles of works published on such fundamental subjects as the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide, history, literature, the arts, religion, education, Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Published annually by the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features current scholarship in the form of symposia, articles, and book reviews by distinguished experts of Jewish studies from colleges and universities across the globe. Each volume also includes a list of recent dissertations. Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century will appeal to all students and scholars of the sociocultural history of the Jewish people, especially those interested in the nature of Jewish intermarriage and/or family life, the changing fate of the Orthodox Jewish family, the varied but widespread Americanization of the Jewish family, and similar concerns.

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0195351886

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Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews

Volume XXII

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews

Volume XXII

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

By: Peter Y. Medding

Volume XVIII of 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry' offers a view of Jews and violence. It construes violence broadly, including deviance and crime, verbal threat and incitement, coercion, force and the resort to arms in individual, collective and communal, and state contexts. The essays span events in Israel, Russia, Germany, and the United States.

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume XVIII: Jews and Violence: Images. Ideologies, Realities

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume XVIII: Jews and Violence: Images. Ideologies, Realities

By: Peter Y. Medding

This is the newest volume of the annual Studies In Contemporary Jewry series. It contains original essays on Jews and crime in fact, fantasy, and fiction; verbal and physical violence in Israeli politics; Jews as revolutionaires; armed resistance by Jews in Nazi Germany; ethical dilemmas within the Israeli Defense Forces; violence in Israeli society and social stress; and other topics. As with other volumes, it also contains review essays and book reviews.

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume V: Israel: State and Society, 1948-1988

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume V: Israel: State and Society, 1948-1988

By: Peter Y. Medding

This volume critically examines the State of Israel forty years after its establishment. Topics include the integration of Middle Eastern Jews in Israeli society, the Arab minority in Israel, the dilemma of Haredi Jewry, Israeli democracy in transition, and the changing legitimations of the State of Israel. Other essays in the volume include debates on the significance of mixed marriages in North America, and the distinctive character of American Zionism. This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Y. Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of contemporary Jewish history at the University. The volumes include symposia, articles, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations by major scholars of Jewish history from around the world.

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0195363280

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume VIII: A New Jewry? America Since the Second World War

By: Peter Y. Medding

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume VIII: A New Jewry? America Since the Second World War

By: Peter Y. Medding

The eighth volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this volume focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II. Contributions include "A 'Golden Decade' for American Jews, 1945-1955" by Arthur A. Goren, "American Judaism: Changing Patterns in Denominational Self-Definition" by Arnold Eisen, "Value Added: Jews in Postwar American Culture" by Stephen J. Whitfield, "The Postwar Economy of American Jews" by Barry R. Chiswick, "Jewish Migration in Postwar America: The Case of Miami and Los Angeles" by Deborah Dash Moore, and "All in the Family: American Jewish Attachments to Israel" by Chaim Waxman. The volume also contains essays, book reviews, and a list of recent dissertations in the field.

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