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Athens in Jerusalem

Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew

By: Yaacov Shavit

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Athens in Jerusalem

Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew

By: Yaacov Shavit

According to the author the Hellenistic tradition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to draw upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish culture. The author believes that Greek and Hellenistic concepts are now internalised by the Jewish people.

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Liverpool University Press

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1909821764

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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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Routledge

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113517850X

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people – the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology. The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event. The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a “guide to life” in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110200937

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An Imaginary Trio

King Solomon, Jesus, and Aristotle

By: Yaacov Shavit

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An Imaginary Trio

King Solomon, Jesus, and Aristotle

By: Yaacov Shavit

This book focuses on places and instances where Solomon’s legendary biography intersects with those of Jesus Christ and of Aristotle. Solomon is the axis around which this trio revolves, the thread that binds it together. It is based on the premise that there exists a correspondence, both overt and implied, between these three biographies, that has taken shape within a vast, multifaceted field of texts for more than two thousand years.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110677261

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The Road to September 1939

Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

By: Jehuda Reinharz,Yaacov Shavit

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The Road to September 1939

Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

By: Jehuda Reinharz,Yaacov Shavit

Preface: "The Birds Left Early"--"A Million Superfluous Jews" -- and More -- "The Dream of a Jewish State" -- "The Wailing Wall in Évian" and Kristallnacht -- Funeral March at St. James's Palace: "They Betrayed Czechoslovakia, Why Should They Not Betray Us as Well?" -- A Bridge Over the White Paper? -- The Forgotten Congress (Geneva, August 16-25, 1939) -- Will War Break Out? -- "So early, no one has seen death yet" -- Epilogue

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Brandeis University Press

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1684580072

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A Lasting Reward

Memoirs of an Israeli Diplomat

By: Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov

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A Lasting Reward

Memoirs of an Israeli Diplomat

By: Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov

It was 1933 when Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov left Hamburg, the city of his birth. His traditional Jewish family made its way to the Land of Israel, fleeing the impending disaster. In the next few years, the young pupil succeeded in making his way within his new society. After joining Ha-No ar Ha-Oved youth movement and the Haganah, Ben-Yaacov entered Israel s nascent Foreign Ministry in 1948. His service took him around the world to Munich, Cologne, Philadelphia, Lagos, Vienna, and Canberra. In A Lasting Reward, the author describes his life in detail, covering myriad exciting events both well-known and not so well-known events that span many decades and continents. He offers insightful descriptions of the inner workings of the Foreign Ministry and the calling of an Israeli diplomat. Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov s memoirs are an outstanding example of an Israeli autobiography that bears witness to the events that have shaped the history of the Jewish people in the last century.

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Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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9652295396

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9789652295392

Justice and Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By: Yaacov Bar Siman Tov

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Justice and Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By: Yaacov Bar Siman Tov

In this book, the late Prof. Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov argues that the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process so far has been mainly the result of the inability of both sides to reach an agreed formula for linking justice to peace. The issues of justice and injustice are focused mainly on the outcomes of the 1947-1949 first Arab-Israeli War and specifically in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. The conflicting historical narratives of the two sides regarding the question of responsibility for the injustice done to the Palestinians turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a classic case of linking the issues of justice and peace.Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov maintains that the narratives of justice and injustice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have proved to be formidable barriers to peace. Hence, he recommends that justice should be compromised for the sake of peace. The link between justice and peace is an important issue requiring both sides’ attention, but, given the wide and currently unbridgeable gap separating the two sides, it should be postponed to the phase of reconciliation rather than being included in the process of conflict resolution. The two-state solution is endorsed as the best and practical solution and as a first step for a "just peace" in this conflict, to be followed by reconciliation. Highly topical, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers of International Relations, Peace Studies and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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Routledge

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131768754X

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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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NYU Press

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1479832405

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An Imaginary Trio

King Solomon, Jesus, and Aristotle

By: Yaacov Shavit

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An Imaginary Trio

King Solomon, Jesus, and Aristotle

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311067730X

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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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State University of New York Press

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079149585X

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Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

State and Politics in the Middle East

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

State and Politics in the Middle East

By: Yaacov Yadgar

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel's claim to Jewish identity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108488943

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Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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 secularism's presumed binary pitting religion against politics is illusory. He shows that the key to understanding this alleged dichotomy is Israel's 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.

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State University of New York Press

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1438465351

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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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Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948

By: Yaacov Shavit

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Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948

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1135178577

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

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The Road to September 1939

Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

By: Jehuda Reinharz,Yaacov Shavit

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The Road to September 1939

Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

By: Jehuda Reinharz,Yaacov Shavit

In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv, acting primarily out of self-interest, energetically attempted to help European Jews escape the Nazi threat. Drawing on the memoirs, letters, and institutional reports of Chaim Weizmann, Zeev Jabotinsky, David Ben-Gurion, and many others, this volume sheds new light on a troubled period in Jewish history. Reinharz and Shavit trace Jewish responses to developments in Eastern and Central Europe to show that - contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief - Zionists in the Yishuv worked tirelessly on the international stage on behalf of their coreligionists in Europe. Focusing particularly on Poland, while explicating conditions in Germany and Czechoslovakia as well, the authors examine the complicated political issues that arose not just among Jews themselves, but also within national governments in Britain, Europe, and America. Piercing to the heart of conversations about how or whether to save Jews in an increasingly hostile Europe, this volume provides a nuanced and thoughtful assessment of what could and could not be achieved in the years just prior to World War II and the Holocaust.

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Brandeis University Press

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1512601543

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Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine

The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948

By: Yaacov Shavit,Shoshana Sitton

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Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine

The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948

By: Yaacov Shavit,Shoshana Sitton

Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine sheds important light on the stagers of modern Jewish Palestine and on the processes and mechanisms that created the performative lore in other cultures, in ancient as well as modern times.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814341888

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Glorious, Accursed Europe

By: Jehuda Reinharz,Yaacov Shavit

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Glorious, Accursed Europe

By: Jehuda Reinharz,Yaacov Shavit

An exhaustive study of how Jews imagined the idea of Europe and how it existed in their collective memory from the Enlightenment to the present

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UPNE

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1584658436

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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

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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