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Immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate (1922-1948)

By: Yaacov Nir

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Immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate (1922-1948)

By: Yaacov Nir

This book explores the nature of the severe conflict over immigration in Palestine during the British Mandate (1922-1948). It considers the perspectives of the British authorities, the Palestinian Jewish community, and the Palestinian Arabs in their permanent opposition to Jewish immigration, expressed through strikes, demonstrations, and revolt towards the Jewish community in Palestine, as well as the British authorities. It serves to contribute to a debate in the history of Palestine, whilst seeping into other disciplines such as economics, sociology, law, and maritime history.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527576477

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9781527576476

Israel and the Peace Process 1977-1982

In Search of Legitimacy for Peace

By: Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov

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Israel and the Peace Process 1977-1982

In Search of Legitimacy for Peace

By: Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov

Examines the Egyptian-Israeli peace negotiations and settlement and their implications for understanding the peacemaking process.

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355

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State University of New York Press

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079149585X

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9780791495858

Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948

By: Yaacov Shavit

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Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948

By: Yaacov Shavit

First published in 1988. The focus of this title, the nature and character of the Israeli political Right, gained intensive interest immediately after the Israeli elections of 1977. The author discusses this shift of political power from the Left to the Right as a profound political upheaval and discusses this alongside the prior Labour hegemony of the Yishuv. This book is separated into four parts: The territory and organisation of the right; The intellectual foundation of the right; Ideology, programme and political methods and Contradictory images.

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467

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Routledge

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113517850X

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9781135178505

Globalization of Communes

1950-2010

By: Yaacov Oved

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Globalization of Communes

1950-2010

By: Yaacov Oved

After World War II, communes and cooperative communities became internationally oriented in their membership and networking began to develop. Unlike earlier such enterprises, these groups shared an openness to international relationships. This was evident both in the groups' social composition, and in the extension of networks beyond their own country. Such globalization opened up the possibility of comparative analysis, which has become a trend in research since the 1950s. The dynamism and speed with which voluntary communities have spread throughout the world is impressive. In the 1950s there were only a few hundred such societies, but by the end of the last century there were thousands. These have taken a variety of forms. There are religious and secular communes, intentional communities, ecological communities, co-housing projects, various types of Christian communities, communities of Eastern religions, and spiritual communities inspired by New Age thought. Yaacov Oved shows that such societies maintain a community based on cooperation and expand their influence through newspapers, television, and the Internet. Their chief characteristic is their openness to the outside world, and their search for a way to move beyond a world of individualism and competitiveness. To accomplish this, they embrace all the tools of the modern world. Oved observes that those who predicted the failure of communes and intentional communities failed to appreciate the extent to which people in today's society aspire to communal life. This book answers the doubters and does so with a sense of deep historical understanding.

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329

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Routledge

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1351517260

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9781351517263

Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel. The question of Jewish sovereignty shapes Jewish identity in Israel, the status of non-Jews, and relations between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, yet its consequences remain enigmatic. In Sovereign Jews, Yaacov Yadgar highlights the shortcomings of mainstream discourse and offers a novel explanation of Zionist ideology and the Israeli polity. Yadgar argues that secularisms presumed binary pitting religion against politics is illusory. He shows that the key to understanding this alleged dichotomy is Israels interest in maintaining its sovereignty as the nation-state of Jews. This creates a need to mark a majority of the population as Jews and to distinguish them from non-Jews. Coupled with the failure to formulate a viable alternative national identity (either Hebrew or Israeli), it leads the ostensibly secular state to apply a narrow interpretation of Jewish religion as a political tool for maintaining a Jewish majority. This book makes an important contribution to the study of Zionist ideology and the relationship between state and religion in Israel. As the author shows rather convincingly, Zionism and the State of Israel needed the Jewish tradition to supply meaning to their political-theological project. This is a fascinating argument that expands our critical understanding of the ideological foundations of the Jewish national movement. Eran Kaplan, author of Beyond Post-Zionism

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SUNY Press

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1438465335

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9781438465333

To Be a Jewish State

Zionism as the New Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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To Be a Jewish State

Zionism as the New Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation “Jewish” amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and what it means for the politics of the state to be identified as Jewish. The volume interrogates the tension between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state—one whose very character is informed by Judaism—and the notion of Israel as a “state of the Jews,” with the sole criterion the maintenance of a demographically Jewish majority, whatever the character of that majority’s Jewishness might or might not be. The volume also examines Zionism’s relationship to Judaism. It provocatively questions whether the Christian notion of supersessionism, the idea that the Christian Church has superseded the nation of Israel in God’s eyes and that Christians are now the true People of God, may now be applied to Zionism, with Zionism understood by some to have taken over the place of traditional Judaism, rendering the actual Jewish religion superfluous. To Be a Jewish State deeply informs the democratic crisis in Israel, discussing whether Jewish laws put into effect by the state or political moves made to ensure a Jewish majority can be seen as undermining democracy. In our current era, with nationalism resurging, To Be a Jewish State urges a critical re-assessment of the very meaning of modern Jewish identity.

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137

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NYU Press

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1479832421

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9781479832422

The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967

By: Yaacov Ro'i

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The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967

By: Yaacov Ro'i

A 1991 study of the cultural, social, political and international context of the movement for Soviet Jewish emigration.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522447

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9780521522441

Tell it from the Torah: B'raishit. Shemot

By: Gedalia Peterseil

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Tell it from the Torah: B'raishit. Shemot

By: Gedalia Peterseil

In this book, each chapter is dedicated to a different weekly Torah reading (from the books of B'raishit and Shemot), and is composed of several levels of information, such as rabbinic Interpetation, questions to think about, etc.

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Devora Publishing

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0943706955

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9780943706955

Jewish Pastoral Care 2/E

A Practical Handbook from Traditional & Contemporary Sources

By: Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MA, BCC

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Jewish Pastoral Care 2/E

A Practical Handbook from Traditional & Contemporary Sources

By: Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MA, BCC

The first comprehensive resource for pastoral care in the Jewish tradition—and a vital resource for counselors and caregivers of other faith traditions. The essential reference for rabbis, cantors, and laypeople who are called to spiritually accompany those encountering joy, sorrow, and change—now in paperback. This groundbreaking volume draws upon both Jewish tradition and the classical foundations of pastoral care to provide invaluable guidance. Offering insight on pastoral care technique, theory, and theological implications, the contributors to Jewish Pastoral Care are innovators in their fields, and represent all four contemporary Jewish movements. This comprehensive resource provides you with the latest theological perspectives and tools, along with basic theory and skills for assisting the ill and those who care for them, the aging and dying, those with dementia and other mental disorders, engaged couples, and others, and for responding to issues such as domestic violence, substance abuse, and disasters.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1580235115

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9781580235112

Book's by Yaacov Nir

Immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate (1922-1948)

Immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate (1922-1948)

Israel and the Peace Process 1977-1982

Israel and the Peace Process 1977-1982

Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948

Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948

Globalization of Communes

Globalization of Communes

Sovereign Jews

Sovereign Jews

To Be a Jewish State

To Be a Jewish State

The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967

The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967

Tell it from the Torah: B'raishit. Shemot

Tell it from the Torah: B'raishit. Shemot

Jewish Pastoral Care 2/E

Jewish Pastoral Care 2/E

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