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A Voice That Spoke for Justice

The Life and Times of Stephen S. Wise

By: Melvin I. Urofsky,Professor of History and Public Policy Melvin I Urofsky

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A Voice That Spoke for Justice

The Life and Times of Stephen S. Wise

By: Melvin I. Urofsky,Professor of History and Public Policy Melvin I Urofsky

In the first half of this century, a talented and charismatic leadership restructured the American Jewish community to meet the demands and opportunities of a pluralistic, secular society. The work of this generation of titans still guides the current modes of American Jewish life. The last of these giants was the influential reformer Stephen S. Wise--a progenitor of American Zionism, creator of the American and World Jewish Congresses, and founder of the Jewish Institute of Religion. As rabbi of the Free Synagogue, Wise led the fight for a living Judaism responsive to social problems. This engrossing study is more than a chronicle of an ethnic community's adjustment to a host society. Thanks to Melvin Urofsky's painstaking research, it succeeds in revealing the true story behind a legendary and controversial figure in American Jewish history.

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SUNY Press

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0873955382

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9780873955386

The Great Nation in Decline

Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850

By: Professor Sean M Quinlan

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The Great Nation in Decline

Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850

By: Professor Sean M Quinlan

This book studies how doctors responded to – and helped shape – deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation; a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. Moreover, it is shown how doctors imparted biomedical ideas and language that allowed lay people to make sense of often bewildering socio-political changes, thereby giving them a sense of agency and control over these events. Combining a chronological and thematic approach, the six chapters in this book trace how doctors began their medical crusade during the middle of the Enlightenment, how this activism flowered during the French Revolution, and how they then revised their views during the period of post-revolutionary reaction. The study concludes by arguing that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409479943

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9781409479949

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge

By: Menachem Marc Kellner,Professor Menachem Kellner

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Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge

By: Menachem Marc Kellner,Professor Menachem Kellner

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People explores Maimonides' philosophical psychology, his ethics, his views on prophecy, providence, and immortality, his understanding of the place of gentiles in the Messianic area, his attitude toward proselytes, his answer to the question, "Who is a Jew?", his conception of the nature of Torah, and his arguments concerning the nature of the Chosen People. With respect to each of these issues, Kellner shows that Maimonides adopted positions that reflected his emphasis on nurture over nature and his insistence that it is intellectual perfection and not ethnic affiliation which is crucial.

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184

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SUNY Press

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0791406911

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9780791406915

The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy

By: Professor Melvin Edelstein

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The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy

By: Professor Melvin Edelstein

Democracy is perhaps the defining characteristic of modern Western society, but even as late as the nineteenth century it was often viewed with suspicion by many who saw it as akin to anarchy and mob rule. It was not until the French and American revolutions of the eighteenth century that electoral democracy began to gain momentum as a serious force, which was eventually to shape political discourse on a broad, international scale. Taking as its focus the French Revolution, this book explores how the experience in France influenced the emergence of electoral democracy, arguing - contrary to recent revisionist studies - that it was indeed the progenitor of modern representative democracy. Rejecting the revisionist semiotic approach to political culture; it instead adopts a definition emphasizing the shared values that govern political behavior, arguing that the Revolution's essential contribution to modern political culture is its concept of citizenship, embracing widespread political participation. In a broader sense, the book studies the grass-roots democracy, focusing on participation in the primary and secondary electoral assemblies. It is primarily concerned with electoral behavior and practices: how can we explain the electoral process and its results? It analyzes electoral procedures and practices, and voter turnout, based on extensive quantitative data. While focused on political history, this work also examines political sociology, giving careful attention to the occupational composition of elected officials. While acknowledging the democratic shortcomings of the French Revolution (the absence of political parties, electoral campaigns, and declared candidates), the book’s comprehensive study of revolutionary elections concludes that, together with its American counterpart, the French Revolution did indeed give birth to modern electoral democracy. As such, this book is essential reading for historians, political scientists, sociologists and readers interested in the origin of modern liberal democracy.

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385

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472406990

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9781472406996

Learning and Community

Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

By: Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism Jack Wertheimer

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Learning and Community

Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

By: Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism Jack Wertheimer

Rich ethnographies of Jewish supplementary schools drawn from every region in the U.S.

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UPNE

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1584658290

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9781584658290

An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Professor Pål Repstad,Assoc Prof Inger Furseth

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An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Professor Pål Repstad,Assoc Prof Inger Furseth

An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion provides an overview of sociological theories of contemporary religious life. Some chapters are organized according to topic. Others offer brief presentations of classical and contemporary sociologists from Karl Marx to Zygmunt Bauman and their perspectives on social life, including religion. Throughout the book, illustrations and examples are taken from several religious traditions.

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264

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140947710X

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9781409477105

The Civil Sphere

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Yale University

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The Civil Sphere

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Yale University

How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, The Civil Sphere is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal world in which we all reside.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198036817

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9780198036814

Ghost People

Race, Religion, and the Affective Sources of Jewish Identity

By: Paul E Nahme,Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Paul E Nahme

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Ghost People

Race, Religion, and the Affective Sources of Jewish Identity

By: Paul E Nahme,Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Paul E Nahme

What does race feel like? What does race make people feel? Ghost People traces the haunting feelings that constitute race as a structural, social, and psychic experience in modern European history by focusing on the case of Jewish racialization. From Enlightenment constructions of rational humanism, to nineteenth-century colonialism, antisemitism and the racialization of Jews in Europe, to the construction of Judaism as a religion and the disavowal of racial categories in liberal secularism, Nahme asks after the enduring problem of race for Jewish identity, and for how Jews have remained haunted by the specter of race in the modern world.

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Oxford University Press

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0197691838

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9780197691830

Defenders of the Race

Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-siècle Europe

By: John M. Efron,Professor John M Efron

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Defenders of the Race

Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-siècle Europe

By: John M. Efron,Professor John M Efron

This text describes the response of Jewish race scientists in the late 1800s to the question of whether there was a biological basis for Jewish distinctiveness and social development and the complex factors involved in the debate.

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Yale University Press

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0300054408

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9780300054408

Book's by Professor Arthur Hertzberg

A Voice That Spoke for Justice

A Voice That Spoke for Justice

The Great Nation in Decline

The Great Nation in Decline

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy

The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy

Learning and Community

Learning and Community

An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

The Civil Sphere

The Civil Sphere

Ghost People

Ghost People

Defenders of the Race

Defenders of the Race

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