Author: NAOMI W. COHENPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
NOT FREE TO DESIST
Author: NAOMI W. COHENThe Politics of Ethnic Pressure
Author: Judith S. GoldsteinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000097234
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Originally published in 1990, The Politics of Ethnic Pressure examines and evaluates the lobbying activities of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) between 1906 and 1917. The AJC worked to confront two specific problems: the outbreak of a series of programs against the Jews in Russia, and the campaign of the restrictionists in the United States who sought to impede the entry of the new immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. This book focuses on the lobbying activities of the AJC with respect to these issues, and puts forward key questions as to why they cared about the Russian problem, how they viewed their place within American society, and how they lobbied on behalf of their Jewish interests.
Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good
Author: Zevi Hirsch EichensteinPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821292
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
A guide to would-be hasidic kabbalists on how to live a holy life, this work conveys the full flavour of the hasidic approach to kabbalism. Comprehensive and accessible scholarly annotations elucidate the kabbalistic ideas and imagery and clarify the sources to which the author refers. This masterpiece will be of interest to anyone interested in hasidism and Jewish mysticism or the religious way of life and its social history.
פרקי אבות
Author: Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
ISBN: 9780874414202
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The complete Hebrew text illuminated by English transliteration and commentary in an illustrated gift edition.
A Covenant of Creatures
Author: Michael FagenblatPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804774684
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework, Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of epistemology.
To Build a Wall
Author: Gregg IversPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813915548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
To Build a Wall represents the first extensive study of the effect of Jewish interest groups on church-state litigation. Ivers carefully traces the evolution of the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the ADL from benevolent social service agencies to powerful organized interest groups active on all fronts of American politics and public affairs. He draws extensively upon original sources and archival materials from each organization, personal interviews over a five-year period, as well as the personal files and papers of Leo Pfeffer, the lead counsel or amicus curiae in nearly every establishment clause case from the late 1940s through the early eighties. Ivers concludes that organized interests can and do have critical influence in the legal process, but that organizational needs and external demands result in a more ad hoc, less planned approach to law and litigation than much previous scholarship has suggested. Ivers also argues that the ethnic, economic, and religious differences that led to the formation of competing Jewish organizations eighty years ago continue to drive a dynamic pluralism within the Jewish community, manifest in part in divergent approaches to litigation and public affairs.
Jacob H. Schiff
Author: Naomi Wiener CohenPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1684580595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A study emphasizing the role that Jacob Schiff played as the preeminent leader of American Jewry at the turn of the century.
Imposing Their Will
Author: Jack LipinskyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773538453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The beginnings of one of the most organized ethnic communities in North America.
Mystic Treatises
Author: Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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