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The Risk City

Cities Countering Climate Change: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices around the World

By: Yosef Jabareen

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The Risk City

Cities Countering Climate Change: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices around the World

By: Yosef Jabareen

Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a need to rethink and revise current planning methods. Therefore, this book suggests a paradigm shift in our thinking, interrogation, and planning of our cities. Based on the contemporary conditions of risk at cities, this book conceptualizes the risk city as a construct of three interlinked concepts of risk, trust, and practice. It is a construct of risk and its new evolving conditions and knowledge of uncertainties stem from climate change and other risks and uncertainties. As a construct of practices, the risk city produces social and political institutional framework and promotes practices accordingly in order to reduce risk and risk possibilities and to increase trust. In light of the complex challenges and risks to the human habitat that have emerged in recent years, many cities have prepared various types of plans aimed at addressing the challenges posed by climate change. Nonetheless, despite the importance of these plans and the major public resources invested in their formulation, we still know little about them and have yet to begin studying them and assessing their contributions . From the innovative perspective of the risk city, this book asks critical questions about the nature, vision, practices, and potential impact of the recent climate change-oriented plans. What kinds of risks do they attempt to address, what types of practices do they institute, and what types of approaches do they apply? Do they adequately address the risks and uncertainties posed? How do they contribute to the worldwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? This book uses the methodologically innovative Risk City framework to examine the nature, vision, outcomes, practices, and impact of these crucial plans, as well as their contribution to the resilience of our cities and to global efforts toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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9401797684

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EPICS OF TRIALS

By: Yosef Serugo-Lugo

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EPICS OF TRIALS

By: Yosef Serugo-Lugo

Yosef Serugo-Lugo, a Makerere University graduate and the former leader of the National Union of Students of Uganda, looks back at his exciting life in this book. The author was accepted to read law by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 1968. He traveled widely in Europe, promoting Uganda students’ interests and was in London in 1966, as a guest of the National Union of Students, when England won the World Cup. The author struggled to study in London as a private student, working evening shifts to keep up with the cost of living. He was called to the bar in 1973, but due to the abduction and murder of Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka, he opted to stay in the United Kingdom while Uganda sorted out its affairs. From humble beginnings, the author has gone on to enjoy a successful legal and academic career. Join a lifelong scholar as he shares the lessons he’s learned over the years in Epics of Trials.

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Black Man of the Nile and His Family

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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Black Man of the Nile and His Family

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose "Europeanized" African history. Order Black Man of the Nile here.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121261

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We the Black Jews

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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We the Black Jews

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Dr. Ben destroys the myth of a "white Jewish race" and the bigotry that has denied the existence of an African Jewish culture. He establishes the legitimacy of contemporary Black Jewish culture in Africa and the diaspora and predates its origin before ancient Nile Valley civilizations.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121407

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Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953-1967

From Confrontation to Disruption

By: Yosef Govrin

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Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953-1967

From Confrontation to Disruption

By: Yosef Govrin

An |sraeli Ambassador's account of the longest and most tense period in Israeli-Soviet diplomatic relations, from their renewal in 1953 to their severance in 1967. His work analyses the era from the month preceding Stalin's death to the weeks following the Six Day War - one of severance, resumption and then severance again- along two parallel processes.

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Routledge

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1135256624

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An Alternative Path to Modernity

The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe

By: Yosef Kaplan

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An Alternative Path to Modernity

The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe

By: Yosef Kaplan

The essays in this volume deal with the social and intellectual history of the Western Spanish and Portuguese Jews who established new communities in Northwestern Europe during the seventeenth century. The founders of these communities were mainly former Marranos, descendants of those Jews who had converted to Christianity in the closing years of the Middle Ages. After being separated from the Jewish world for many generations, they returned to Judaism and became an integral part of the Sephardi nation. Amsterdam became the metropolis of this new Jewish diaspora, which was characterised by both its involvement in colonial trade and its intellectual ferment. The reencounter of these Jews with Judaism was a complex affair, and for many of these former New Christians rabbinic Judaism aroused harsh criticism. In order to set the boundaries of their new identity, the leadership of the Sephardi communities of Amsterdam, Hamburg and London adopted a variety of strategies designed to rein in these wayward spirits. This process of socialisation into the Jewish world created a new type of Judaism, and those whose Jewish life was framed by this new amalgam can be considered the precursors of modernity in European Jewish society.

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9004500944

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African Origins of the Major "Western Religions"

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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African Origins of the Major "Western Religions"

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Dr. Ben critically examines the history, beliefs, and myths that are the foundation of Judaism. Christianity, and Islam.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121296

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Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

As Black and African Studies programs emerged in the early 1970's, the question of who has the right and responsibility to determine course content and curriculum also emerged. In 1972, Dr. Ben's critique on this subject was published as Cultural Genocide in The Black and African Studies Curriculum. It has been republished several times since then and its topic has remained timely and unresolved.

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Black Classic Press

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1574780220

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Contemporary Israeli Cinema

Trauma, Ethics and Temporality

By: Raz Yosef

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Contemporary Israeli Cinema

Trauma, Ethics and Temporality

By: Raz Yosef

Through analysis of the complex discourse surrounding trauma and loss, this book provides a necessary examination of temporality and ethics in Israeli film and television since the turn of the millennium. The author examines posttraumatic idioms of fragmentation and incoherence, highlighting the rising resistance towards generic categories, and the turn to unconventional and paradoxical structures with unique aesthetics. Maintaining that contemporary Israeli cinema has undergone an ethical shift, the author examines the revealing traumas and denied identities that also seek alternative ways to confront ethical question of accountability. It discusses the relationships between trauma, nationalism, and cinema through the intertwined perspectives of feminism, queer theory, and critical race and postcolonial studies, showing how national traumas are constructed by notions of gendered, sexual, and racial identity. This innovative text highlights the complexities of discourse surrounding trauma and loss, informed by multiple categories of difference. Across each chapter various elements of Israeli film are explored, spanning from strategies used to critically examine victim-perpetrator dynamics, co-existence in temporal space, women’s cinema in Israel, displacement, and queer communities and identity. Beyond its direct contribution to cinema studies and Israel studies, the book will be of interest to trauma and memory studies, postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality studies, Jewish studies, Middle Eastern studies, and cultural studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000826694

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The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917

Palestine and the Question of Orientalism

By: Eitan Bar-Yosef

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The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917

Palestine and the Question of Orientalism

By: Eitan Bar-Yosef

The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem in the Middle East? The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 offers a new cultural history of the English fascination with Palestine in the long nineteenth century, from Napoleon's failed Mediterranean campaign of 1799, which marked a new era in the British involvement in the land, to Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem in 1917. Bar-Yosef argues that the Protestant tradition of internalizing Biblical vocabulary - 'Promised Land', 'Chosen People', 'Jerusalem' - and applying it to different, often contesting, visions of England and Englishness evoked a unique sense of ambivalence towards the imperial desire to possess the Holy Land. Popular religious culture, in other words, was crucial to the construction of the orientalist discourse: so crucial, in fact, that metaphorical appropriations of the 'Holy Land' played a much more dominant role in the English cultural imagination than the actual Holy Land itself. As it traces the diversity of 'Holy Lands' in the Victorian cultural landscape - literal and metaphorical, secular and sacred, radical and patriotic, visual and textual - this study joins the ongoing debate about the dissemination of imperial ideology. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from Sunday-school textbooks and popular exhibitions to penny magazines and soldiers' diaries, the book demonstrates how the Orientalist discourse functions - or, to be more precise, malfunctions - in those popular cultural spheres that are so markedly absent from Edward Said's work: it is only by exploring sources that go beyond the highbrow, the academic, or the official, that we can begin to grasp the limited currency of the orientalist discourse in the metropolitan centre, and the different meanings it could hold for different social groups. As such, The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 provides a significant contribution to both postcolonial studies and English social history.

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Clarendon Press

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0191555576

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Partner to Partition

The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era

By: Yosef Kats

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Partner to Partition

The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era

By: Yosef Kats

Formulated in 1937-38, the Jewish Agency Executive plan for partitioning Palestine - though never implemented - was not an isolated episode, but had short- and long-term implications from the Jewish perspective.

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Psychology Press

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0714648469

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Development, Environment, and Global DysfunctionToward Sustainable Recovery

By: Yosef Gotlieb

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Development, Environment, and Global DysfunctionToward Sustainable Recovery

By: Yosef Gotlieb

This book challenges conventional concepts of development and Modernization and surveys their contribution to "global dysfunction"-entrenched poverty, environmental degradation and socio-political unrest. Gotlieb argues for a social ecology based on quality of life and community, environmental sustainability, and "needs-based" rather than growth-oriented economic systems. Communities must find their own paths to environmentally sustainable recovery from local manifestations of global dysfunction.

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CRC Press

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1574440128

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New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan

By: Erez Ben-Yosef,Thomas E. Levy,Mohammad Najjar

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New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan

By: Erez Ben-Yosef,Thomas E. Levy,Mohammad Najjar

Situated south of the Dead Sea, near the famous Nabatean capital of Petra, the Faynan region in Jordan contains the largest deposits of copper ore in the southern Levant. The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (ELRAP) takes an anthropological-archaeology approach to the deep-time study of culture change in one of the Old World's most important locales for studying technological development. Using innovative digital tools for data recording, curation, analyses, and dissemination, the researchers focused on ancient mining and metallurgy as the subject of surveys and excavations related to the Iron Age (ca. 1200-500 BCE), when the first local, historical state-level societies appeared in this part of the eastern Mediterranean basin. This comprehensive and important volume challenges the current scholarly consensus concerning the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and some of its neighbors, such as ancient Israel. Excavations and radiometric dating establish a new chronology for Edom, adding almost 500 more years to the Iron Age, including key periods of biblical history when David, Solomon, and the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I are alleged to have interacted with Edom. Included is a 7 gigabyte DVD with over 55,000 files of additional data and photographs from the project.

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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

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1938770935

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Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the Diagram of the Law of Opposites

The Black Man's Religion

By: Yosef ben- Jochannan

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Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the Diagram of the Law of Opposites

The Black Man's Religion

By: Yosef ben- Jochannan

Published while teaching at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, this work showcases Dr. Ben as a mentor, and gives readers a sample of his interactive teaching style. He combines in this book a dynamic lecture on the Diagram of the Law of Opposites, along with essays contributed by his graduate students on aspects of the same topic. This collaboration between student and teacher distinguishes this volume from the many other books by this noted activist-historian

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Black Classic Press

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1574780352

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The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

By: Raz Yosef

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The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

By: Raz Yosef

The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and critically successful both in Europe and the United States and have won a number of prestigious international awards. This book examines for the first time the new ideological and aesthetic trends in contemporary Israeli cinema. More specifically, it critically explores the complex and crucial role of Israeli cinema in remembering and restaging traumas and losses that were denied entry into the shared national past. One of the most striking phenomena in contemporary Israeli cinema is the number and scope of films dealing with past traumatic events – events that were repressed or insufficiently mourned, such as the memory of the Holocaust, traumas from wars and terrorist attacks, and the losses entailed by the experience of immigration. Current Israeli cinema exposes and highlights a radical discontinuity between history and memory. Traumatic events from Israeli society’s past are represented as the private memory of distinct social groups – soldiers, immigrants, women, queers – and not as collective memory, as a lived and practiced tradition that conditions Israeli society. This detachment from national collective memory pulls the films into a world marked by a persistent blurring of the historical context and by private and subjective impressions – a timeless world of dreams, hallucinations and myths. These groups feel duty-bound to remember the past, recasting repressed memories through the cinema in order to return and to give meaning to their identity.

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Routledge

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1136789251

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Zionism, Post-Zionism & the Arab Problem

A Compendium of Opinions About the Jewish State

By: Yosef Mazur

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Zionism, Post-Zionism & the Arab Problem

A Compendium of Opinions About the Jewish State

By: Yosef Mazur

Dr. Mazurs book is a must read! It will serve to uplift the young of our generation and strengthen their confidence and trust in the righteousness of the Zionist way Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe (Bogie) Yaalon Vice Prime Minister & Minister of Strategic Affairs Belongs in the permanent collection of core books owned by every person who loves Zion and cares about the welfare of the State of Israel Zvi Hauser, Cabinet Secretary, Govt of Israel Definition of the problem is half the solution. Dr. Mazurs complete and comprehensive display of the core issues allows the reader to fully understand the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Zionist perspective and understand that world peace will not come from further Israeli concessions Prof. Gabi Avital, former Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of Education Chairman, Professors for a Safe Israel With immense patience and the precision of a surgeon, Dr. Mazur allows the facts to speak for themselves which makes a refutation of Israels right to exist practically impossible Prof. Dan Meirstein, President, Ariel University Center Dr. Mazurs book is the answer for anyone who wants to know the truth rather than the lies and distortions constantly hurled at the Jewish people and the Zionist enterprise Dr. Yossi Achimeir, Director, Jabotinsky Institute "Dr. Mazur has revealed the secrets and dangers of post-Zionism and his stunning conclusions will contribute to the life-or-death discourse of our nation." Prof. Rafi Israeli, The Hebrew University

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WestBow Press

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1449736424

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Zakhor

Jewish History and Jewish Memory

By: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

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Zakhor

Jewish History and Jewish Memory

By: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

“Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - New York Times Book Review

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University of Washington Press

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0295803835

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Africa

Mother of Western Civilization

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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Africa

Mother of Western Civilization

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

In lecture/essay format, Dr. Ben identifies and corrects myths about the inferiority and primitiveness of the indigenous African peoples and their descendants. Order Africa Mother of Western Civilization here.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121253

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The Need for a Black Bible

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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The Need for a Black Bible

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

The third book in a 3-volume set, The Need for a Black Bible is a companion volume to African Origins of the Major Western Religions and The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins. These three volumes were orginally published as the 3-volume set The Black Man's Religion and are available separately for the first time. The Black Man's Religion is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of belief systems in the Western world.

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093312158X

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Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

By: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

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Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

By: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Publication of Yosef Yerushalmi's Zakhor in 1982 inspired a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the Jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. Here, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from medieval rabbinics, homiletics, kabbalah, and Hasidism to antisemitism, Zionism, and the making of modern Jewish identity. Essays are clustered around four central themes: historical consciousness and the construction of memory; the relationship between time and history in Jewish thought; the demise of traditional forms of collective memory; and the writing of Jewish history in modern times.

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UPNE

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0874518717

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Archaeomalacology

Molluscs in former environments of human behaviour

By: D. Bar-Yosef

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Archaeomalacology

Molluscs in former environments of human behaviour

By: D. Bar-Yosef

Molluscs are the most common invertebrate remains found at archaeological sites, but archaeomalacology (the study of molluscs in archaeological contexts) is a relatively new archaeological discipline and the field of zooarchaeology is seen by many as one mainly focused on the remains of vertebrates. The papers in this volume hope to redress this balance, bringing molluscan studies into mainstream zooarchaeological and archaeological debate, and resulting in a monograph with a truly international flavour.

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Oxbow Books

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1782979050

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From Christianity to Judaism

Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro

By: Yosef Kaplan

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From Christianity to Judaism

Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro

By: Yosef Kaplan

A biography of Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal and one of the most prominent intellectual figures in the 17th century. This work sheds light on the life of a Jewish community of former Christians in Amsterdam and examines their dilemmas and attempts to create a new identity.

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Liverpool University Press

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1909821411

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From Binational Society to Jewish State (paperback)

Federal Concepts in Zionist Political Thought, 1920-1990, and the Jewish People

By: Yosef Gorny

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From Binational Society to Jewish State (paperback)

Federal Concepts in Zionist Political Thought, 1920-1990, and the Jewish People

By: Yosef Gorny

This book explores the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought in two different periods: the British mandate (1920-1948), and the years 1967-1992 in the State of Israel. The central issue in this research is to show the search for the establishment of some bi-national Jewish-Arab coexistence in Mandatory Palestine and later in the State of Israel.

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BRILL

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9047411617

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Freud's Moses

Judaism Terminable and Interminable

By: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

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Freud's Moses

Judaism Terminable and Interminable

By: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other things, Freud claims in the book that Moses was an Egyptian, that he derived the notion of monotheism from Egyptian concepts, and that after he introduced monotheism to the Jews he was killed by them. Since these historical and ethnographic assumptions have been generally rejected by biblical scholars, anthropologists, and historians of religion, the book has increasingly been approached psychoanalytically, as a psychological document of Freud's inner life--of his allegedly unresolved Oedipal complex and ambivalence over his Jewish identity. In Freud's Moses a distinguished historian of the Jews brings a new perspective to this puzzling work. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi argues that while attempts to psychoanalyze Freud's text may be potentially fruitful, they must be preceded by a genuine effort to understand what Freud consciously wanted to convey to his readers. Using both historical and philological analysis, Yerushalmi offers new insights into Freud's intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism. He presents the work as Freud's psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish psyche--his attempt, under the shadow of Nazism, to discover what has made the Jews what they are. In the process Yerushalmi's eloquent and sensitive exploration of Freud's last work provides a reappraisal of Freud's feelings toward anti-Semitism and the gentile world, his ambivalence about psychoanalysis as a "Jewish" science, his relationship to his father, and above all a new appreciation of the depth and intensity of Freud's identity as a "godless Jew.

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Yale University Press

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0300057563

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9780300057560

Converging Alternatives

The Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897-1985

By: Yosef Gorny

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Converging Alternatives

The Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897-1985

By: Yosef Gorny

Converging Alternatives provides the first comparative study of the national ideology of two rival Jewish socialist movements: the Bund party and the Zionist Labor movement in Eretz-Israel (Palestine). Yosef Gorny traces the concept of the Jewish nation from the foundation of the Bund and the first Zionist Congress in 1897 until the remains of the Bund decided to join the Jewish local and world institutions in 1985. The following events from those years are covered: the Soviet Revolution, the Balfour declaration, the founding of the Polish Republic, the British Mandate on Palestine, the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Jewish-Arab conflict, the Holocaust, and the gradual disappearance of the two movements from the historical stage. This innovative approach to the Bund and Zionist movements helps explain the connection between nationalism and multiculturalism in the Jewish modern tradition.

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State University of New York Press

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0791482200

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Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture

By: Yosef Garfinkel

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Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture

By: Yosef Garfinkel

As the nomadic hunters and gatherers of the ancient Near East turned to agriculture for their livelihood and settled into villages, religious ceremonies involving dancing became their primary means for bonding individuals into communities and households into villages. So important was dance that scenes of dancing are among the oldest and most persistent themes in Near Eastern prehistoric art, and these depictions of dance accompanied the spread of agriculture into surrounding regions of Europe and Africa. In this pathfinding book, Yosef Garfinkel analyzes depictions of dancing found on archaeological objects from the Near East, southeastern Europe, and Egypt to offer the first comprehensive look at the role of dance in these Neolithic (7000-4000 BC) societies. In the first part of the book, Garfinkel examines the structure of dance, its functional roles in the community (with comparisons to dance in modern pre-state societies), and its cognitive, or symbolic, aspects. This analysis leads him to assert that scenes of dancing depict real community rituals linked to the agricultural cycle and that dance was essential for maintaining these calendrical rituals and passing them on to succeeding generations. In the concluding section of the book, Garfinkel presents and discusses the extensive archaeological data—some 400 depictions of dance—on which his study is based.

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University of Texas Press

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0292779968

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The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins

The Black Man's Religion

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins

The Black Man's Religion

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

The second book in a 3 volume set, this is a companion volume to African Origins of the Major Western Religions and The Need for a Black Bible. An invaluable resource for anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of belief systems in the Western world.

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Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology

The Tragedy of Black People/Africans in Religion Today

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology

The Tragedy of Black People/Africans in Religion Today

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan

In Black Seminarians, Dr. Ben outlines sources of Black theology before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, showing how their ideas, practices, and concepts were already old in Africa before Europe was born.

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178

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Black Classic Press

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ISBN 10

0933121628

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9780933121621

The British Labour Movement and Zionism, 1917-1948

By: Yosef Gorni

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The British Labour Movement and Zionism, 1917-1948

By: Yosef Gorni

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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278

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Psychology Press

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0714631620

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9780714631622

The Black Man's North and East Africa

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan,George E. Simmonds

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The Black Man's North and East Africa

By: Yosef Ben-Jochannan,George E. Simmonds

Few of Dr. Ben's books are written with co-authors. The Black Man's North and East Africa is an exception. Written with one of his early colleagues, George E. Simmonds, this work attacks the racist manipulation of African and Black history by 'educators' and 'authorities on Africa'. Defenders of the Africans' right to tell their own story, the authors insist that Black people must take responsibility for their own history, "Until African (Black) people are willing, and do write their own experience, past, and present, we will continue being slaves, mentally, physically, and spiritually, to Caucasian and Semitic racism and religious bigotry.

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1574780328

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9781574780321

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