Author: Aḥad HaʻamPublisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Selected Essays of Ahad Ha-'Am
Author: Aḥad HaʻamPublisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Selected Essays by Ahad Ha-'Am
Author: Aḥad HaʻamAn Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers
Author: Alan T. LevensonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0742546063
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers have to teach non-Orthodox Jews and vice versa? Each chapter includes a short, judiciously chosen selection from the given author, along with questions to guide the reader through the material. Short biographical essays at the end of each chapter offer the reader recommendations for further readings and provide the low-down on which books are worth the reader's while. Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers represents a decade of the author's experience teaching students ranging from undergraduate age to their seventies. This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate classes.
A Land of Two Peoples
Author: Martin BuberPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226078021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Theologian, philosopher, and political radical, Martin Buber (1878–1965) was actively committed to a fundamental economic and political reconstruction of society as well as the pursuit of international peace. In his voluminous writings on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine, Buber united his religious and philosophical teachings with his politics, which he felt were essential to a life of public dialogue and service to God. Collected in ALand of Two Peoples are the private and open letters, addresses, and essays in which Buber advocated binationalism as a solution to the conflict in the Middle East. A committed Zionist, Buber steadfastly articulated the moral necessity for reconciliation and accommodation between the Arabs and Jews. From the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 to his death in 1965, he campaigned passionately for a "one state solution. With the Middle East embroiled in religious and ethnic chaos, A Land of Two Peoples remains as relevant today as it was when it was first published more than twenty years ago. This timely reprint, which includes a new preface by Paul Mendes-Flohr, offers context and depth to current affairs and will be welcomed by those interested in Middle Eastern studies and political theory.
Selected Essays, by Ahad Ha-'am
Author: Leon SimonSelected Essays of Ahad Ha-ʻam ...
Author: Aḥad HaʻamThe Wondering Jew
Author: Micah GoodmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path to bridging the divide "A thoughtful social, political, and philosophical examination of Judaism. . . . A cogent consideration of the place of religion in the modern world."--Kirkus Reviews Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now, a new middle ground is emerging between religious and secular Jews who want to engage with their heritage--without being restricted by it or losing it completely. In this incisive book, acclaimed author Micah Goodman explores Israeli Judaism and the conflict between religion and secularism, one of the major causes of political polarization throughout the world. Revisiting traditional religious sources and seminal works of secularism, he reveals that each contains an openness to learn from the other's messages. Goodman challenges both orthodoxies, proposing a new approach to bridge the divide between religion and secularism and pave a path toward healing a society torn asunder by extremism.
Jewish Polemics
Author: Arthur HertzbergPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231078429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Provocative, politically important, and controversial essays--by one of the most widely read and respected scholars of the Jewish experience--that touch on topics such as Zionism in America, God and the Holocaust, Christian-Jewish relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Israeli politics.
Between Jew and Arab
Author: David N. MyersPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584658150
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An exploration of the fascinating Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz and his provocative views on Arab refugees and the fate of Israel
New Essays in American Jewish History
Author: Pamela Susan NadellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781602801486
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives and the tenth anniversary of Gary P. Zola as its Director, New Essays in American Jewish History includes twenty-two new articles representing the best in modern American and Jewish scholarship. More than a celebration, New Essays serves as a scholarly benchmark in the growing field of American Jewish studies." --Amazon.com.