On Jews and Judaism in Crisis

On Jews and Judaism in Crisis
Author: Gershom Scholem
Publsiher: Schocken
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1976
Genre: Germany
ISBN: UOM:39015013951515

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Includes articles on Walter Benjamin, S.Y. Agnon, Martin Buber, and on Israel and the diaspora.

Judaism and Crisis

Judaism and Crisis
Author: Armin Lange,Diethard Römheld,Matthias Weigold
Publsiher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2011
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN: 9783525542088

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The political, social, cultural, and religious crises Jews encountered in their long history influenced the development of Jewish culture, thought, and religion. The authors describe how Jews coped with these threatening events, especially how they consequently had to rethink and shape their Jewish identity anew.

Crisis and Covenant

Crisis and Covenant
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Publsiher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1992
Genre: Covenants
ISBN: 0719042038

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Discusses various issues in contemporary Jewish theology. Ch. 2 (p. 25-53), "The Valley of the Shadow", is dedicated to the theological interpretation of the Holocaust. The Holocaust poses several problems to Jewish thought: Is God present in the post-Auschwitz world? Did the Holocaust renew the Covenant or did it survive intact? May the Holocaust be interpreted in terms of punishment, or is its meaning different, maybe inexplicable, in the extant categories of human ethics? May the Holocaust be regarded as a necessary transitional point on the way to the Jewish state? What lessons may be extracted from the Holocaust? Presents various solutions of modern-day Jewish theologians. Argues that the only lesson of the Holocaust is the reality of a common Jewish fate.

American Jews Community in Crisis

American Jews  Community in Crisis
Author: Gerald S. Strober
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1974
Genre: Jews
ISBN: UOM:39015004052620

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Crisis Revolution and Russian Jews

Crisis  Revolution  and Russian Jews
Author: Jonathan Frankel
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521513647

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This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of radicalized activists - committed to socialism, nationalism, or both - who would exert an extraordinary influence on Jewish history in the twentieth-century in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Palestine. Frankel describes the dynamics of 1905 and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries, ideologues, and observers. But, elsewhere, he also looks backwards to the emergent stage of modern Jewish politics in both Russia and the West and forward to the part played by the veterans of 1905 in Palestine and the United States.

Israel and the World

Israel and the World
Author: Martin Buber
Publsiher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1997-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0815604815

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Written over 40 years, this text seeks to: clarify the relation of certain aspects of Jewish thinking and Jewish living to contemporary intellectual movements; and to analyze those trends within Jewish life, which, surrendering to many ideologies, tend to weaken the teachings of Israel.

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity
Author: Leo Strauss
Publsiher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781438421445

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Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.

Anti Semitism in Times of Crisis

Anti Semitism in Times of Crisis
Author: Sander L. Gilman,Steven T. Katz
Publsiher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 1991-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780814730447

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Growing out of a conference held at Cornell U. in 1986, this collection of essays exploring the representation of the Jew in the Western world investigates the role of the Jew as the ultimate other in Europe and in the parts of the world colonized by Europeans, and follows the shift from Semitism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR