132 results on '"Evron, Boas"'
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2. In Memoriam: Boas Evron.
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AUTHORS , *EDITORS - Published
- 2018
3. Pour une séparation
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EVRON, BOAS and Pascalis, Mathilde
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- 1966
4. Israel After Zionism.
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Evron, Boas
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ZIONISM ,JEWS ,CHRISTIANITY - Abstract
Presents views of Jews towards Zionism. Problems faced by Jews due to lack of their own land; Opinion of Zionists on Christianity; Flaws in the concept of Zionism; Impact of Zionism on the culture of Israel.
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- 1981
5. Letters.
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Silverstein, Richard, Avineri, Shlomo, Steinman, Jerry, Said, Edward, Goldmann, Robert B., Evron, Boas, Tobman, Harry, Goheen, Frank W., and Tobey, Joseph
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LETTERS to the editor ,PERIODICALS ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Presents letters to the editor of the periodical 'The Nation,' highlighting world politics and international relations.
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- 1982
6. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition
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Quandt, William B., primary, Zerubavel, Yael, additional, and Evron, Boas, additional
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- 1996
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7. 1948 - A Memoir.
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Evron, Boas
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ISRAEL-Arab War, 1948-1949 , *WAR , *INTERNATIONAL conflict , *ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. , *PALESTINIANS , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *LIBERTY - Abstract
The article relates the author's experience during the 1948 war between Israel and Palestine. According to the author, he was one of the representatives of Lohamei Herut Israel (LEHI) which is the Hebrew initials of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel that is also known as the Stern Gang in New York. They attempted to recruit young people and collect financial and political backing for the organization that was fighting the British and the Arabs in the Palestine. They also followed momentous events in their homes with terrible anxiety, pestering their superiors for permission to return home and enter the war. Moreover, his friends, classmates and acquaintances have been killed or wounded in the fight.
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- 2008
8. Israel's Shifting Identity.
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Evron, Boas
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NATIONALISM , *INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Relates the conversation of the author with an immigrant lady in Israel who came from Russia. Arguments over the Israeli Jewish identity; Complexity in Israeli Jewish identity; Factors contributing to the Arab Israeli identity.
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- 2002
9. A Military Boomerang.
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Evron, Boas
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ARMED Forces ,LEBANESE politics & government ,MILITARY policy - Abstract
Discusses the negative effect of the military offensive launched by the Israeli government against Palestinians living in Lebanon on the motivation of the Israeli Army. Details on the real purpose of the Israeli Defense Force; Opposition expressed by members of the armed forces and the citizens of Israel against the use of excessive military force to resolve its conflict with the Palestinians.
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- 1982
10. The Nuclear Trap.
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Evron, Boas
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NUCLEAR weapons , *ARAB-Israeli conflict, 1993- , *NUCLEAR nonproliferation , *INTERNATIONAL obligations , *NUCLEAR arms control , *MILITARY tactics , *TREATIES - Abstract
The article presents the author's statements regarding the nuclear proliferation issue in some countries in the Middle East region. The author mentions the countries within the region possessing the nuclear stronghold including Iran and Israel and cites the control of nuclear arms proliferation in Iraq. In addition, the author notes the Iran and Israel's efforts for the intensification of their nuclear program and fortification of their military tactics. The author looks at the danger on the conflict that occurred between Israel and Palestine, in which the Israel could possibly use its nuclear arsenals against its state enemy. Furthermore, the author also highlights the purpose of implementing the Nonproliferation Treaty in the said region.
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- 2010
11. Recordando a barbárie para libertar ou oprimir: usos e abusos mnemônicos do nazismo.
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SAHD, Fabio Bacila
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HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945 ,SOUTH Lebanon conflict, 1985-2000 ,CULTURAL history ,MODERNITY in literature ,GENOCIDE ,NATIONAL socialism - Abstract
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- 2015
12. Jewish state or Israeli nation?
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Evron, Boas and Evron, Boas
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- Zionism--Philosophy, Jews--Israel--Identity
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Boas Evron traces the violent fissures in Israeli society to a basic incompatibility between the concept of a democratic, secular state, on the one hand, and an integral nation defined on a religious basis, on the other. Surveying the full sweep of Jewish history, Evron argues that the Jews were never a territorial nation. Judaism is instead a religious civilization for which the diaspora was not a historical coincidence but a necessary condition of its existence. He concludes that Israel should become a territorial state accommodating its sizeable non-Jewish minority in a truly democratic way.
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- 1995
13. Enhanced Agency for Recent Jewish Migrants to the United States.
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Gold, Steven
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IMMIGRANTS ,AMERICAN Jews ,JEWISH identity ,TRANSNATIONALISM ,SOCIAL integration - Abstract
As recently as the late 1970s and 1980s, a broad consensus in both Israel and US Jewish communities asserted that Israel should be the primary destination for Jewish migrants. Hebrew terms like yordim (those who go down) and noshrim (dropouts) stigmatized 'Jewish communal deviants' who chose to settle outside of Israel. Moreover, whether they established themselves in Tel Aviv or Los Angeles, Jewish migrants were expected to cooperate with the religious, economic, political, cultural, and national agendas created for them by their host communities. While migrants had their own preferences about resettlement, they had limited ability to act on them. However, by the mid-1990s, a series of political, economic, ideological and demographic developments had transformed the status and treatment of Jewish migrants. The United States had received hundreds of thousands of Jewish migrants, either in competition with, or from, Israel. The American Jewish community, in consort with migrant activists and Israel itself, extended an array of social, economic, and religious services to Jewish migrants. And in both Israel and the United States, migrant populations increasingly selected their own patterns of national, political, linguistic, cultural, and religious identity-conforming to the agendas of host communities only in ways that they themselves chose. The net effect of these recent transformations has been to greatly enhance the autonomy of Jewish migrants. In this, we see a movement away from nationally-bounded forms of Jewish identity within Israel, the United States and other settings, and their replacement with flexible and less geographically fixed forms of Jewish identification. This article draws on in-depth interviews with Jewish migrants and resettlement staff to discuss recent transformations among Jewish migrants in the United States. It reviews some of the causes of these changes and considers their impacts. It concludes that skilled Jewish migrants with access to multiple places and ways of settlement have a great deal to offer the American Jewish community, but also considerable freedom to decide how and where they will live. Such factors transform established understandings of American Jewish life and need to be considered by scholars and policy makers involved in Jewish population research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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14. Recently Published Works in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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GENOCIDE - Abstract
A bibliography is presented of books such as "Genocide: A Reference Handbook" by Howard Ball, "Children of the Camps: Japan's Last Forgotten Victims" by Mark Felton, and "The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy and Justice in World War II" by Gregory A. Freeman.
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- 2011
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15. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY ,ARAB-Israeli conflict periodicals - Abstract
A bibliography is presented for periodical articles discussing Palestinian and Israeli history and current events as of Autumn 2010, including "The Fall of Acre in the 1948 Palestine War," by Mustafa Abbasi, "UNRWA and the Palestinian Refugees: A History within History," by Riccardo Bocco, and "Jerusalemites and the Fission of Identity: Inspiration from Frantz Fanon," by Elise Agazarian.
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- 2010
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16. O Jerusalem! The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant (Book)
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Farber, Seth
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MESSIANISM ,SOLIDARITY ,PALESTINIANS ,JEWS ,LIBERATION theology ,HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945 - Abstract
The article focuses on Messianism and theological rationale for Jewish-Palestinian solidarity according to theologian Marc Ellis. His beliefs on Jewish Palestinian liberation theology has been influenced by the Jewish Holocaust theologians. According to Ellis, there is an ecumenical deal between Christians and Jews. His book "O, Jerusalem" focuses on the implications of Palestinians for the understanding of Jewish spiritual identity.
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- 2005
17. BOAS EVRON.
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- 2000
18. Milestone Documents in World History : Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World
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Eric Cunningham and Eric Cunningham
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- World history--Sources
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The new edition of our landmark reference set, now updated for the first in 15 years, deepens the original edition's coverage of major themes in world history with more than 40 new entries across 4 volumes. These include excerpts from ancient classics such as the Analects of Confucius and Rig Veda, sacred texts such as the Koran, Enlightenment sources from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Catherine the Great, and influential documents of the modern era such as Nelson Mandela's iconic speech “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom” and the Paris Climate Accords. Like all installments in the “Milestone Documents” series, Milestone Documents in World History features in-depth scholarly commentary alongside each primary source, guiding students and researchers through a critical analysis of the source and its importance in world history.
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- 2024
19. Routledge Handbook on Zionism
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Colin Shindler and Colin Shindler
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- Zionism--History
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This Handbook, the first of its kind, provides an in- depth examination of the evolution, ideology, history and culture of Zionism and its various movements.Distancing itself from the slogans and cliches of advocacy, the volume provides much-needed context and background on the emergence of Zionism. The Handbook is divided into eight parts – with contributions from some forty of the world's leading scholars on Zionism –to elucidate its various strands. These include underrepresented areas such as Zionism in the Arab World before the establishment of the State of Israel, Zionism and Marxism, the emergence of the Zionist Right, the language war between Hebrew and Yiddish, the struggle for Jewish women's suffrage, the poetry of Lea Goldberg, and Zionism in emerging new Jewish communities in locations like Papua New Guinea, Guatemala and Zimbabwe. Another section on Zionism in repressive states stretches from an examination of Zionism in Hitler's Germany to the Ayatollahs'Iran today; from subterranean Zionism in Stalin's Russia to apartheid South Africa. The volume concludes by examining current issues, including the relationship between evangelicals and Zionism in the US, and the representation of Zionism in the age of the internet.Providing a sweeping overview of Zionism in its many forms, the volume will appeal to students, researchers and general readers interested in Jewish studies in the Middle East and beyond, as well as those seeking to understand the roots of contemporary Israel.
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- 2024
20. The Hebrew Falcon : Adya Horon and the Birth of the Canaanite Idea
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Roman Vater and Roman Vater
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Adya Gur Horon (1907–1972) was a provocative public intellectual and historical and geopolitical thinker who called for the overthrow of the Israeli non-democratic state-order in favor of an'imperial'Hebrew national vision based on the domination of the whole Levant. Drawing on Horon's private archive, Roman Vater studies the intellectual sources of the mid-twentieth century Hebrew national ideology, known as'Canaanism,'contending this vision can only be properly understood in light of Horon's articulation of its historical'foundation myth.'The intellectual and political rivalry between Jewish ethnic nationalism and Hebrew civic nationalism, represented by the'Canaanite'challenge to Zionism, continues to inform current debates about Israel's identity and its relation to world Jewry on the one hand and the Arab world on the other—and largely determines Israel's global political alliances to this day. The Hebrew Falcon is indispensable reading for scholars and students of nationalism, Israel, Zionism, and the intellectual and political history of the modern Middle East.
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- 2024
21. The Middle East and South Asia 2023–2024
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Ilan Pappe and Ilan Pappe
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The World Today Series: The Middle East and South Asia. More than a quarter of the world's population live in the Middle East and South Asia, yet our knowledge and understanding of the region is often limited to news updates about the latest conflicts and crises. This edition of the annually updated volume of the World Today Series provides important insights that take the reader beyond the headlines. It offers detailed and up-to-date information about the politics, economies and societies of the twenty-four states that make up the region. Contemporary events are placed in their historical context, through an examination of major civilizations and key historical events. This volume introduces major themes that have shaped the region, including the struggles of ordinary people to achieve democratic rights; the role of oil in shaping society; burgeoning environmental threats; and the rise and fall of the Islamic State caliphate. While there is reason for optimism in regards to the Middle East and South Asia, this is tempered by the very real challenges that confront the region. The general reader will gain an understanding of these challenges and opportunities through an exploration of current and past developments.
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- 2023
22. The Middle East and South Asia 2020-2022
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Elisabeth Yarbakhsh and Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
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The World Today Series: The Middle East and South Asia. More than a quarter of the world's population live in the Middle East and South Asia, yet our knowledge and understanding of the region is often limited to news updates about the latest conflicts and crises. This edition of the annually updated volume of the World Today Series provides important insights that take the reader beyond the headlines. It offers detailed and up-to-date information about the politics, economies and societies of the twenty-four states that make up the region. Contemporary events are placed in their historical context, through an examination of major civilizations and key historical events. This volume introduces major themes that have shaped the region, including the struggles of ordinary people to achieve democratic rights; the role of oil in shaping society; burgeoning environmental threats; and the rise and fall of the Islamic State caliphate. While there is reason for optimism in regards to the Middle East and South Asia, this is tempered by the very real challenges that confront the region. The general reader will gain an understanding of these challenges and opportunities through an exploration of current and past developments.
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- 2022
23. The Middle East and South Asia 2022–2023
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Ilan Pappe and Ilan Pappe
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The World Today Series: The Middle East and South Asia. More than a quarter of the world's population live in the Middle East and South Asia, yet our knowledge and understanding of the region is often limited to news updates about the latest conflicts and crises. This edition of the annually updated volume of the World Today Series provides important insights that take the reader beyond the headlines. It offers detailed and up-to-date information about the politics, economies and societies of the twenty-four states that make up the region. Contemporary events are placed in their historical context, through an examination of major civilizations and key historical events. This volume introduces major themes that have shaped the region, including the struggles of ordinary people to achieve democratic rights; the role of oil in shaping society; burgeoning environmental threats; and the rise and fall of the Islamic State caliphate. While there is reason for optimism in regards to the Middle East and South Asia, this is tempered by the very real challenges that confront the region. The general reader will gain an understanding of these challenges and opportunities through an exploration of current and past developments.
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- 2022
24. Egyenlők és egyenlőbbek : A szemitizmus szervezett magánhatalom
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János Drábik and János Drábik
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A XXI. században csaknem kétmilliárd keresztény és 800 millió mohamedán él Földünkön. A magukat zsidónak vallók száma mintegy 12–14 millió. Ebből is látható, hogy a zsidóság egésze létszámát tekintve egy viszonylag kis vallási és népi közösséget alkot, amely kevesebb, mint a Földünkön élő hétmilliárd ember egynegyed százaléka. A zsidóság, a judaizmus és a zsidó szervezetek befolyása azonban nem mérhető a zsidó öntudattal rendelkezők számával. Milton Himmelfarb amerikai zsidó író ezt így fejezte ki: „Minden zsidó tudja, hogy mennyire átlagember önmagában. Ha viszont együtt vesszük számításba őket, akkor nagy dolgokra képesek, és megmagyarázhatatlanok… A zsidók száma a világon kisebb, mint egy pici hiba a kínai népszámlálásban. Mi mégis nagyobbak vagyunk, mint a létszámunk. Nagy dolgok történnek körülöttünk és velünk.” A különböző országokban élő zsidó közösségek államot alkotnak az államban, és csak azt engedik be maguk közé teljes jogú tagként, aki genetikailag, etnikailag, vérségileg is hozzájuk tartozik. Szigorúan számon tartják, hogy saját törvényeik szerint ki számít zsidónak, és ki nem. Amikor a zsidó közösségek elkülönülnek, lényegében kizárják maguk közül mindazokat, akiket ők nem tartanak zsidónak. Vagyis szigorúan kirekesztő magatartást tanúsítanak. Ugyanakkor viszont a befogadó népektől elvárják, hogy azok ne tartsák számon azt, hogy ők zsidók, és őket minden szervezetbe pontosan ugyanolyan feltételekkel bocsássák be, mint ahogyan azt megtehetik a befogadó nemzethez tartozó személyek. Az emancipációnak és az integrációnak a legkisebb korlátozását is kirekesztésként ítélik el. De nemcsak a többség tudja kirekeszteni a kisebbséget, a kisebbség is ki tudja rekeszteni magából a többséget. Ezért ma már a maximálisan megszerveződött zsidó közösségek kvázi államot alkotnak az államban, amelynek a polgárai olyan privilégiumokat élveznek, amelyeket a többségi befogadó nemzet átlagpolgárai nem élvezhetnek.
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- 2021
25. The Returns of Zionism : Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
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Gabriel Piterberg and Gabriel Piterberg
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In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines theideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the latenineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-EasternEuropean nationalism and settler movements, he shows how its texts can beplaced within a wider discourse of western colonization. Revisiting the work ofTheodor Herzl and Gershom Scholem, Anita Shapira and David Ben-Gurion, andbringing to light the writings of lesser-known scholars and thinkersinfluential in the formation of the Zionist myth, Piterberg breaks openprevailing views of Zionism, demonstrating that it was in fact unexceptional,expressing a consciousness and imagination typical of colonial settlermovements. Shaped by European ideological currents and the realities ofcolonial life, Zionism constructed its own story as a unique and impregnableone, in the process excluding the voices of an indigenous people-thePalestinian Arabs.
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- 2020
26. Jewish Radicalisms : Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity
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Frank Jacob, Sebastian Kunze, Frank Jacob, and Sebastian Kunze
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- Radicalism--20th century, Radicalism--19th century, Jewish radicals, Radicalism--Religious aspects--History, Radicalism--Political aspects--History
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Jewish radical thoughts and actions can be described in a variety of terms and dimensions. This volume wants to survey Jewish radicalism and present different approaches on this global historical phenomenon. It is focused on the 19th and 20th century and tries to grasped the manyfold Ideas of Jewish radicalism and, thereby, it approaches the term Jewish radicalism from different perspectives and wants to extend the understanding of this phenomenon.
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- 2020
27. The Making of the Israeli Far-Right : Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology
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Peter Bergamin and Peter Bergamin
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- Right-wing extremists--Israel, Zionism
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Abba Ahimeir (1897 –1962) writer, journalist and historian began his public life as a socialist, but subsequently moved toward the rightward extreme of Zionist ideology. One of the earliest opponents of the British Mandate, in 1930 he founded a radical organization called Brit Habiryonim (the Union of Zionist Rebels). This was a clandestine, self-declared fascist faction of the Revisionist Zionist Movement (ZRM) in Palestine whose official ideology was Maximalist Revisionism, an ideology for which Ahimeir is now most well-known.Ahimeir's career as a political activist came to an early end, when he was arrested in connection with the murder of the Labour Zionist leader, Chaim Arlosoroff. Although acquitted, Ahimeir nonetheless went to prison for his involvement as a political activist. This is the first intellectual biography of one of the most influential figures on the Zionist Right. Based on much unseen primary source material from the Ahimeir archive in Ramat Gan and the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv, as well as Ahimeir's newspaper articles, the author provides a rigorous analysis of Ahimeir's ideological development. The book positions him more accurately within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, updates common misunderstanding about this period of history and revises Israeli collective memory.
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- 2020
28. Understanding the Contemporary Middle East, 5th Ed.
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Jillian Schwedler, ed and Jillian Schwedler, ed
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The previous edition of Understanding the Contemporary Middle East was published soon after the Arab uprisings, and the authors—writing across disciplines—captured those moments of possibility. Now, more than six years later, the Middle East is substantially changed, with three protracted civil wars, several retrenched authoritarian regimes, possibly one emerging democracy, and social and economic conditions that have been profoundly affected by the new political environment. This thoroughly revised and updated edition explores both the impact of recent events in shaping the region and the continuities with established patterns of political, economic, and social relations.
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- 2020
29. Starstruck in the Promised Land : How the Arts Shaped American Passions About Israel
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Shalom Goldman and Shalom Goldman
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- Christian Zionism--United States--History--20th century, Artists--Political activity--United States--History--20th century, Popular culture--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century, Electronic books
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From the days of steamship travel to Palestine to today's evangelical Christian tours of Jesus's birthplace, the relationship between the United States and the Holy Land has become one of the world's most consequential international alliances. While the political side of U.S.-Israeli relations has long played out on the world stage, the relationship, as Shalom Goldman shows in this illuminating cultural history, has also played out on actual stages. Telling the stories of the American superstars of pop and high culture who journeyed to Israel to perform, lecture, and rivet fans, Goldman chronicles how the creative class has both expressed and influenced the American relationship with Israel.The galaxy of stars who have made headlines for their trips includes Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Leonard Bernstein, James Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Madonna, and Scarlett Johansson. While diverse socially and politically, they all served as prisms for the evolution of U.S.-Israeli relations, as Israel, the darling of the political and cultural Left in the 1950s and early 1960s, turned into the darling of the political Right from the late 1970s. Today, as relations between the two nations have only intensified, stars must consider highly fraught issues, such as cultural boycotts, in planning their itineraries.
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- 2019
30. The Middle East and South Asia 2019-2020
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Elisabeth Yarbakhsh and Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
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More than a quarter of the world's population live in the Middle East and South Asia, yet our knowledge and understanding of the region is often limited to news updates about the latest conflicts and crises. This 53rd edition of the annually updated volume of the World Today Series provides important insights that take the reader beyond the headlines. It offers detailed and up-to-date information about the politics, economies and societies of the twenty-four states that make up the region. Contemporary events are placed in their historical context, through an examination of major civilizations and key historical events. This volume introduces major themes that have shaped the region, including the struggles of ordinary people to achieve democratic rights; the role of oil in shaping society; burgeoning environmental threats; and the rise and fall of the Islamic State caliphate. While there is reason for optimism in regards to the Middle East and South Asia, this is tempered by the very real challenges that confront the region. The general reader will gain an understanding of these challenges and opportunities through an exploration of current and past developments.
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- 2019
31. The Government And Politics Of Israel : Third Edition
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Peretz, Don, Doron, Gideon, Peretz, Don, and Doron, Gideon
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Israeli government and politics have undergone significant changes since the second edition of this book was published in 1983. Israel withdrew from Lebanon, absorbed hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from the collapsed Soviet Union and Ethiopia, and undertook peace negotiations with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbors that led to a historic peace treaty, the Declaration of Principles. These events were made possible as a result of several institutional, legal, and normative changes in the political system.This completely revised edition of The Government and Politics of Israel offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the dynamics of Israeli politics. This edition focuses on issues that have become central in the study of Israels political system, such as new electoral procedures, the formation of new parties, government administrative reorganization, fresh personalities on the national scene, and the peace process. The book is intended to familiarize those interested in Israels government with its origins; the evolution of its institutions, practices, and traditions; and the workings of the government today. }Israeli government and politics have undergone significant changes since the second edition of this book was published in 1983. Israel withdrew from Lebanon, absorbed hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from the collapsed Soviet Union and Ethiopia, and undertook peace negotiations with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbors that led to a historic peace treaty, the Declaration of Principles. These events were made possible as a result of several institutional, legal, and normative changes in the political system.This completely revised edition of The Government and Politics of Israel offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the dynamics of Israeli politics. This edition focuses on issues that have become central in the study of Israels political system, such as new electoral procedures, the formation of new parties, government administrative reorganization, fresh personalities on the national scene, and the peace process. The book is intended to familiarize those interested in Israels government with its origins; the evolution of its institutions, practices, and traditions; and the workings of the government today. }
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- 2018
32. The Middle East and South Asia 2018-2019
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Seth Cantey and Seth Cantey
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This annually updated volume of the World Today Series is designed to place in context the passionate controversies and emotional attachments of the two billion people who live, study, work, and die in the Middle East and South Asia. Despite room for optimism in some areas, many parts of the Middle East and South Asia continue to face extraordinary challenges and difficult outlooks. Much of this has to do with conflict across the region, which extends well beyond atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State and the Assad regime in Syria.This volume depicts a region where hundreds of millions seek dignity as humans and respect from their governments. This volume helps the general reader understand recent and past developments from these countries.
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- 2018
33. Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922–1942
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Dan Tamir and Dan Tamir
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- Revisionist Zionists--Palestine--History--20th century, Fascism--Palestine--History--20th century
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This book focuses on a little-studied yet virulent and devoted fascist faction that was active within Zionist circles during the 1920s and 1930s. Since the early 1930s, the term'fascist'was regularly used by Labour Zionists in order to defame their right-wing opponents, the'Revisionists'. The latter group, for its part, tended to reject such accusations. Up to this point, however, little comprehensive research has been carried out for examining the possible existence of a genuine Hebrew fascism in Palestine according to a global comparative model of generic fascism. This book is an attempt to do so, examining the first wave of fascism in Palestine, during the inter-war period.The current discussion in Israel about rising fascist movements and organisations gained momentum during the past decade. Telling the story of a yet relatively neglected part of the roots of the Israeli right wing may not only shed light on the past, but also provide us with a historical perspective when measuring contemporary political movements and events.
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- 2018
34. Israel in the American Mind : The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958–1988
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Shaul Mitelpunkt and Shaul Mitelpunkt
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- Public opinion--United States
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This book examines the changing meanings Americans and Israelis invested in the relationship between their countries from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Bringing to light previously unexamined sources, this study is the first to investigate the intricate mechanisms that defined and redefined Israel's place in American imagination through the war-strewn 1960s and 1970s. Departing from traditional diplomatic histories that focus on the political elites alone, Shaul Mitelpunkt places the relationship deep in the cultural, social, intellectual, and ideological landscapes of both societies. Examining Israeli propaganda operations in America, Mitelpunkt also pays close attention to the way Israelis manipulated and responded to American perceptions of their country, and reveals the reservations some expressed towards their country's relationship with the United States. By contextualizing the relationship within the changing domestic concerns in both countries, this book provides a truly transnational history of US-Israeli relations.
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- 2018
35. Security, Arms Control and Defence Restructuring in East Asia
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Bjørn Møller and Bjørn Møller
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- National security--East Asia--Congresses, Arms control--East Asia--Congresses
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First published in 1998, this volume examines East Asia, especially Northeast Asia, which has been a region of considerable political security of importance for several key reasons. It features several great and medium powers: China, Japan and Russia, as well as North and South Korea. Even though no arms race is yet discernible among these states (with the partial exception of the two Koreas), it is conceivable that one might commence. If it did, the level of militarization could become quite alarming, if only because of the tremendous and rapidly growing economic potential of the regional states. Even though relations among regional sates (except the two Koreas) are currently peaceful, the region features several unresolved issues (e.g. concerning territory) and a historical legacy of enmity between several states. To prevent such conflicts of interest from erupting into armed conflict is of the utmost importance. A stabilizing factor is that the military potentials in the region are still predominantly defensively oriented, i.e. most states lack the requisite power projection or invasion capabilities to inflict serious harm on each other. However, this might change in the not-so-distant future. Hence the importance of confidence-building measures; of an institutionalization of regional relations; and of a strengthening of commitments to defensive military strategies and postures.
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- 2018
36. Defining Documents in World History: Nationalism & Populism (320 BCE-2017 CE)
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David Simonelli and David Simonelli
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- Populism--History--Sources, Nationalism--History--Sources, Political science--Sources
- Abstract
Investigates important historical documents from influential nationalist and populist movements from countries and territories around the globe.
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- 2017
37. Nationalizing Judaism : Zionism As a Theological Ideology
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David Ohana and David Ohana
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- Zionism, Judaism
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This new book by historian David Ohana analyzes Zionism and the Israeli state as a theological ideology. The book pursues this provocative end by showing the dialectical tension between Judaism and Zionism. How has Zionism molded perceptions and images that were formed in the Jewish past, and to what extent were these Jewish themes reflected, modified, and crystallized in the national culture of the State of Israel?Nationalizing Judaism covers constituent topics such as Messianism, Utopianism, territorialism, collective memory, and political myths along with the critics that threatened to undermine Zionist appropriations and constructs. Thus, in addition to the 1942 “Million Plan” and territorial redemptionist views, the book discusses fundamental critiques of Messianism penned by the historians Gershom Scholem and Jacob Talmon and de-territorial perceptions of the Levant by the writer and the essayist Jacqueline Kahanoff.Nationalizing Judiasm closes with the nationalization of the desert, the vision of David Ben-Gurion (“the old man”) who proclaimed statehood in 1948, as shown by his funeral and the symbolic memory of his grave. In its attempt to acquire historical legitimation Zionism appropriated themes and myths from the Jewish past, yet these appropriations were differentiated as they had selectively culled elements that suited the national ethos. The book opens with Ben-Gurion's messianic vision and comes full circle with his death in 1973.
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- 2017
38. The Middle East and South Asia 2017-2018
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Seth Cantey and Seth Cantey
- Abstract
This volume is designed to place in context the passionate controversies and emotional attachments of the two billion people who live, study, work, love, and die in the Middle East and South Asia. Understanding these regions means more than annually-updated details of the governments, politics, cultures, and economies of the twenty-four nations and assorted territories. Special chapters address significant issues of continuing international importance, including access to water, the role of oil, and the 2011 Arab spring.Both regions, after all, contain types of people misunderstood and often intensely disliked by others. Where religion intrudes on politics—the Afghan Taliban oppose educating girls, Hindu fanatics rampage in India, Iranian militiamen shoot demonstrators, Islamic extremists impose sharia, and Jewish Ultra-Orthodox send women to the back of the bus—readers bombarded with superficial news bites and slanted reporting might never sense the other accomplishments of these same societies. Islamic charities and societies bring relief to the impoverished, Israel's scholars win Nobel prizes, and most Indians cherish long-standing religious toleration. The author of this volume attempts to let the reader draw conclusions from the evidence.
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- 2017
39. Israel Under Siege : The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
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Raffaella A. Del Sarto and Raffaella A. Del Sarto
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- Right and left (Political science)--Israel, National security--Israel
- Abstract
Raffaella A. Del Sarto examines the creation of Israel's neo-revisionist consensus about security threats and regional order, which took hold of Israeli politics and society after 2000 and persists today. The failed Oslo peace process and the trauma of the Second Palestinian Intifada triggered this shift to the right; conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah and the inflammatory rhetoric of Iranian President Ahmadinejad additionally contributed to the creation of a general sense of being under siege. While Israel faces real security threats, Israeli governments have engaged in the politics of insecurity, promoting and amplifying a sense of besiegement. Lively political debate has been replaced by a general acceptance of the no-compromise approach to security and the Palestinians. The neo-revisionist right, represented by Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud, has turned Israel away from the peace process and pushes maximalist territorial ambitions. But they have failed to offer a vision for an end to conflict, and there has been little debate about whether or not the hardline policies toward the region are counterproductive. Del Sarto explains this disappearance of dissent and examines the costs of Israel's policies. She concludes that Israel's feeling of being under siege has become entrenched, a two-state solution with the Palestinians is highly unlikely for the foreseeable future, and Israel's international isolation is likely to increase. Del Sarto's analysis of this tense political situation will interest scholars and students of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East Studies, and International Relations.
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- 2017
40. The Shakespearean World
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Jill L Levenson, Robert Ormsby, Jill L Levenson, and Robert Ormsby
- Subjects
- PR2976
- Abstract
The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries.'Shakespeare'signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare's world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice. Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies – such as ecology, tourism, and new media – and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists.
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- 2017
41. The Middle East and South Asia 2016-2017
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Cantey, Seth and Cantey, Seth
- Abstract
This volume is designed to place in context the passionate controversies and emotional attachments of the two billion people who live, study, work, love, and die in the Middle East and South Asia. Understanding these regions means more than annually-updated details of the governments, politics, cultures, and economies of the twenty-four nations and assorted territories. Special chapters address significant issues of continuing international importance, including access to water, the role of oil, and the 2011 Arab spring.Both regions, after all, contain types of people misunderstood and often intensely disliked by others. Where religion intrudes on politics—the Afghan Taliban oppose educating girls, Hindu fanatics rampage in India, Iranian militiamen shoot demonstrators, Islamic extremists impose sharia, and Jewish Ultra-Orthodox send women to the back of the bus—readers bombarded with superficial news bites and slanted reporting might never sense the other accomplishments of these same societies. Islamic charities and societies bring relief to the impoverished, Israel's scholars win Nobel prizes, and most Indians cherish long-standing religious toleration. The author of this volume attempts to let the reader draw conclusions from the evidence.
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- 2016
42. The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature : The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
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Isabelle Hesse and Isabelle Hesse
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Jews in literature
- Abstract
Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing.Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the'colonial'turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state. Following the dynamics of this turn, the book demonstrates new ways of questioning received ideas about victimhood and power in contemporary discussions of postcolonialism and world literature.
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- 2016
43. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Norman G. Finkelstein and Norman G. Finkelstein
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“An impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing... indictment of Israel's treatment of the Arabs since 1948” through a survey of popular and scholarly images (London Review of Books) “The most revealing study of the historical background of the conflict.” —Noam ChomskyFinkelstein opens this acclaimed study with a theoretical discussion of Zionism, locating it as a romantic form of nationalism that assumed the bankruptcy of liberal democracy. He goes on to look at the demographic origins of the Palestinians, with particular reference to the work of Joan Peters, and develops critiques of the influential studies of both Benny Morris and Anita Shapira. Reviewing the diplomatic history with Aban Eban‘s oeuvre as his foil, Finkelstein closes by demonstrating that the casting of Israel as the innocent victim of Arab aggression in the June 1967 and October 1973 wars is not supported by the documentary record. This new edition critically reexamines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current failures of the peace process.
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- 2016
44. Traces of History : Elementary Structures of Race
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Patrick Wolfe and Patrick Wolfe
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- Racism--History, Race relations--History, Colonies--Administration--History, Indigenous peoples--Colonization--History, Colonies--Race relations--History
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Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native Americans in the United States, on Ashkenazi Jews in Western Europe, on Arab Jews in Israel/Palestine, and on people of African descent in Brazil, this book shows how race marks and reproduces the different relationships of inequality into which Europeans have coopted subaltern populations: territorial dispossession, enslavement, confinement, assimilation, and removal. Charting the different modes of domination that engender specific regimes of race and the strategies of anti-colonial resistance they entail, the book powerfully argues for cross-racial solidarities that respect these historical differences.
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- 2016
45. Historical Dictionary of Israel
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Bernard Reich, David H. Goldberg, Bernard Reich, and David H. Goldberg
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- Israel--History--Dictionaries, Israel--Politics and government--Dictionaries
- Abstract
Since its creation, the State of Israel has been a magnet for attention. A country beset by conflict in its region and faced with the need to integrate mainly Jewish immigrants of disparate backgrounds into a modern and advanced democratic state and society, Israel has preoccupied observers, scholars and journalists since its independence in May 1948. Although a Jewish state Israel is also a democratic state that guarantees the rights of all of its citizens, including its large Arab and Moslem minority, in law and in practice. Israel and its modern history and politics have been the subject of substantial and often highly partisan literature, being hotly and vigorously debated both at home and abroad. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Israel contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1100 cross-referenced entries onsignificant persons, places, events, government institutions, political parties, and battles, as well as entries on Israel's economy, society, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the various diplomatic and political personalities, institutions, organizations, events, concepts, and documents that together define the political life of the Jewish state of Israel.
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- 2016
46. Handbook of Israel: Major Debates
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Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Julius H. Schoeps, Yitzhak Sternberg, Olaf Glöckner, Anne Weberling, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Julius H. Schoeps, Yitzhak Sternberg, Olaf Glöckner, and Anne Weberling
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- Religion and state--Israel, Zionism
- Abstract
The Handbook of Israel: Major Debates serves as an academic compendium for people interested in major discussions and controversies over Israel. It provides innovative, updated and informative knowledge on a range of acute debates. Among other topics, the handbook discusses post-Zionism, militarism, democracy and religion, (in)equality, colonialism, today's criticism of Israel, Israel-Diaspora relations, and peace programs. Outstanding scholars face each other with unadulterated, divergent analyses. These historical, political and sociological texts from Israel and elsewhere make up a major reference book within academia and outside academia. About seventy contributions grouped in thirteen thematic sections present controversial and provocative approaches refl ecting, from different angles, on the present-day challenges of the State of Israel. Other Major Works by the Editors: Eliezer Ben-RafaelIs Israel One? Religion, Nationalism and Ethnicity Confounded, Brill (2005)Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel, Cambridge University Press (paperback) (2007) Julius H. SchoepsBegegnungen. Menschen, die meinen Lebensweg kreuzten. Suhrkamp (2016)Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf. Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinan Conflict. De Gruyter (2013) Yitshak SternbergWorld Religions and Multiculturalism: A Relational Dialectic. Brill (2010).Transnationalism. Brill (2009) Olaf GlöcknerBeing Jewish in 21st Century Germany. De Gruyter (2015, with Haim Fireberg)Deutschland, die Juden und der Staat Israel. Olms (2016, with Julius H. Schoeps)
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- 2016
47. A Political Theory for the Jewish People
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Chaim Gans and Chaim Gans
- Subjects
- Jewish nationalism--History, Zionism
- Abstract
Chaim Gans's A Political Theory for the Jewish People examines the two dominant interpretations of Zionism, contrasts them with post-Zionist alternatives, and develops a third model. Along with exploring the historiographic, philosophical and moral foundations of each of these approaches, Gans considers their implications for the relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel/Palestine as well as the relationship between Israeli and diasporic Jews. Proprietary Zionism, Gans argues, is the version that is most popular among the Israeli Jewish public. It conceives of the land of Israel/historic Palestine as the property of the Jewish people. It also conceives of the entire Jewish people as belonging to Israel. Hierarchical Zionism is common among Israel's educated elites and interprets the Jewish right to self-determination as a right to hegemony within the Israeli state. It remains silent on the issue of the relationship between Israeli and non-Israeli Jews. Post-Zionist approaches, conversely, thoroughly reject these Zionist narratives regarding Jewish history and critique the rationale for the continued existence of the state of Israel as a Jewish state. Gans disagrees with all of these approaches, and in their stead advocates egalitarian Zionism, which is based on an egalitarian interpretation of the right to national self-determination and derives from the justifications for Zionism in its early years. As such, it interprets the historical link between the Jews and the land of Israel in terms of identity rather than property. It also views the link between Israel and world Jewry as a matter of choice for individual Jews--not as a matter of necessity, inextricably bound to their essence as Jews. He sees it as preferable to both the dominant strands of Zionism but also to the major contemporary anti-Zionist approaches: first, that of the Israeli post-Zionists offering a civic or post-colonial vision of a non-Jewish state, and, secondly, that of the mostly American post-Zionists who have a neo-diasporic vision for both Israeli and non-Israeli Jews in which the connection to the land of Israel is loose at best. Ultimately, the book argues that egalitarian Zionism is superior to its rivals both in the authenticity of its relationship to Jewish history and in its implications for denizens of Israeland Jews around the world.
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- 2016
48. Das Ende des Holocaust : Übersetzt von Manford Hanowell
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Alvin H. Rosenfeld and Alvin H. Rosenfeld
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In seinem zu Diskussionen anregenden Werk kritisiert Alvin H. Rosenfeld die Zunahme von Büchern, Filmen, Fernsehsendungen, Ausstellungen und öffentlichen Gedenkveranstaltungen zum Holocaust. Es grenze an Perversität, dass damit eine Verunglimpfung des Gedenkens an den Holocaust und eine Schwächung seiner Bedeutung verbunden sei.Rosenfeld untersucht eine große Bandbreite von Geschehnissen und kulturellen Phänomenen – so etwa Ronald Reagans Besuch des Friedhofes in Bitburg 1985, die Entstellungen der Geschichte von Anne Frank sowie die Art und Weise, in der der Holocaust von Künstlern und Filmproduzenten wie Judy Chicago und Steven Spielberg dargestellt wird. Er zeigt die kulturellen Kräfte auf, die den Holocaust in der allgemeinen Wahrnehmung heruntergespielt haben.Als Kontrast dazu präsentiert der Autor sachliche Darstellungen aus der Feder von Holocaust-Zeugen wie Jean Améry, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel und Imre Kertész.Das Buch schließt mit einer eindringlichen Warnung vor den möglichen Konsequenzen eines'Endes des Holocaust'im öffentlichen Bewusstsein.
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- 2015
49. Edward Said : The Legacy of a Public Intellectual
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Ganguly, Debjani, Curthoys, Ned, Ganguly, Debjani, and Curthoys, Ned
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- Intellectuals--United States--20th century, Intellectuals--United States--21st century, Critics--United States--20th century, Critics--United States--21st century
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This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said.Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre. Exciting new scholarship highlights the ways in which humanities in the twenty-first century can engage with Said's legacy, which includes his imbrications of culture and imperialism, his cosmopolitan critique of the idea of'clash of civilisations', and his belief that the intellectual needs to maintain'intellectual performances'on many fronts.The individual chapters achieve a sense of balance between the two poles of Said's persona: the brilliant and intimidating literary and music critic who invested deeply in an inclusive and democratic vision of humanism and the outspoken public intellectual who kept alive the truth of Palestine and the dangers of a settler colonial ethos.
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- 2015
50. Politics and Society in Modern Israel : Myths and Realities
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Adam Garfinkle and Adam Garfinkle
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- DS126.5
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With full coverage of recent dramatic events in Israeli politics from the Rabin assassination through the May 1996 elections, this work provides an up-to-date introduction to Israeli politics and society. It seeks to convey a strong sense of everyday life in Israel, the nuances and contradictions of Israeli identity, the ethnic composition and institutional structure of Israeli society, as well as Israeli political culture and the issues that dominate the country's domestic and foreign policy.
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- 2015
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