Download or read book The Book of Why written by Judea Pearl and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.
Download or read book The Menorah written by Steven Fine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Standing before the Arch of Titus menorah -- From Titus to Moses-and back -- Flavian Rome to the nineteenth century -- Modernism, Zionism, and the menorah -- Creating a national symbol -- A Jewish holy grail -- The menorah at the Vatican -- Illuminating the path to Armageddon
Download or read book The New Jewish Leaders written by Jack Wertheimer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life
Download or read book The Modern Judea Compared with Ancient Prophecy written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Judea written by Benjamin Lee Gordon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Judea: Jewish Life in Modern Palestine and Egypt Montenegro and Bulgaria gained their political freedom from Ottoman rule, after the Russian Turkish War Italy, after throwing 06 the yoke of Austria and the Pope became united on ethnologic grounds and the unification of Germany was accomplished on ancient Germanic lines. The result of such doctrine placed the Jew in a most pathetic and singular position. As a good citizen, he participated in the fights for independence, and as a progressive, he was an adherent of the new science of anthropology. But when the struggle was over and his native country succeeded in its fight for independence, he was declared to be of a different race and nationality. Germany is for the Germanic race! Was the universal cry of the Fatherland. The Jew being of Semitic origin, naturally can have no claim on German soil. Anti-semitism, therefore, was the logical outcome of the new teaching. The Reform tion in Germany and elsewhere had illuminated the minds of the people, but had not softened their hearts. Luther, the creator of the Reforma tion. Was not in sympathy with the followers of an alien faith. The cultured Jew of Germany found himself between the anvil and the hammer. He could not consistently deny his Semitic origin, and would not accept the conclusion of the anti-semites, to relinquish his claim on his native country, having helped proportionately more than any other class of people to weld the new empire. The idea that Juda ism is merely a religious confession, as taught by the Mendelssohnian School, has indeed brought the adaptation of the Western European Jews as far as possible to the manners and aspirations of the dominant nationality among which they lived, but as a remedy against anti Semitism it turned out to be an illusion. A blind hatred of Jews which baffled all attempts of enlightenment was in progress in spite of the earnest desire to sacrifice their inner conviction to merge as com pletely as posible with the masses of their fellow-citizens; their honest efforts were spurned in contempt. The prevailing thought was. That the mere birth in a certain land does not change the racial pedigree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Tales Of Modern Judea Short Stories written by Elias Sassoon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories written long ago; cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with the thoughts of greatness, and leaving a childhood in Flushing, New York behind to conquer the world! Then, I came back home, back as a writer of fiction, back to the same apartment in which I'd grown up. My father, an angry, out-of-work factory worker, was still the asshole, roared, drank, punched and ridiculed. While listening, I wrote, locked in a room, pounding keys of an old Olivetti. Soon, finished with a novel and story collection, I sent them out. I imagined Madison Avenue publishers congratulating themselves on finding the next genius, that is, until my manuscripts were returned with a form rejection. Crushed and embarrassed. What did they know! Manuscripts streamed out across the U.S., followed by rejection. Eventually, I got out, and found jobs as a writer in Corporate America. The stories in this book date from that time.
Download or read book The Modern Judea Compared with Ancient Prophecy written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Judea written by Benjamin Lee Gordon and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Times of Transition written by Sylvie Honigman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the contributions to this volume depict it as one in which critical changes took place. Until recently, the period from Alexander’s conquest in 332 BCE to the early years of Seleucid domination following Antiochus III’s conquest in 198 BCE was reputed to be poorly documented in material evidence and textual production, buttressing the view that the era from late Persian to Hasmonean times was one of seamless continuity. Biblical scholars believed that no literary activity belonged to the Hellenistic age, and archaeologists were unable to refine their understanding because of a lack of secure chronological markers. However, recent studies are revealing this period as one of major social changes and intense literary activity. Historians have shed new light on the nature of the Hellenistic empires and the relationship between the central power and local entities in ancient imperial settings, and the redating of several biblical texts to the third century BCE challenges the traditional periodization of Judean history. Bringing together Hellenistic history, the archaeology of Judea, and biblical studies, this volume appraises the early Hellenistic period anew as a time of great transition and change and situates Judea within its broader regional and transregional imperial contexts.
Download or read book Masada written by Jodi Magness and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology of its famous site Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children—the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple—reportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of Masada, a barren and windswept mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, spawned a powerful story of Jewish resistance that came to symbolize the embattled modern State of Israel. Incorporating the latest findings, Jodi Magness, an archaeologist who has excavated at Masada, explains what happened there—and what it has come to mean since. Featuring numerous illustrations, this is an engaging exploration of an ancient story that continues to grip the imagination today.
Download or read book New Judea Jewish Life in Modern Palestine and Egypt With Plates written by Benjamin Lee GORDON (MD., F.C.I.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Modern Judea Ammon Moab and Edom Compared with Ancient Prophecy With Notes and Engravings and Maps written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish New Testament written by David H. Stern and published by Messianic Jewish Publishers. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by David H. Stern Uses neutral terms and Hebrew names Highlights Jewish features and Jewish references Corrects mistranslations from an anti-Jewish theological bias 436 pp.
Download or read book Beyond the Nation State written by Dmitry Shumsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of Zionist history, challenging the inevitability of a one-state solution, from a bold, path-breaking young scholar The Jewish nation-state has often been thought of as Zionism’s end goal. In this bracing history of the idea of the Jewish state in modern Zionism, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the state of Israel, Dmitry Shumsky challenges this deeply rooted assumption. In doing so, he complicates the narrative of the Zionist quest for full sovereignty, provocatively showing how and why the leaders of the pre-state Zionist movement imagined, articulated and promoted theories of self-determination in Palestine either as part of a multinational Ottoman state (1882-1917), or in the framework of multinational democracy. In particular, Shumsky focuses on the writings and policies of five key Zionist leaders from the Habsburg and Russian empires in central and eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Leon Pinsker, Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha’am, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and David Ben-Gurion to offer a very pointed critique of Zionist historiography.
Download or read book New Judea written by Benjamin Lee Gordon and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Soul of Judaism written by Bruce D Haynes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in America and the counter-narratives they have put forward as they stake their claims to Jewishness. The Soul of Judaism offers the first exploration of the full diversity of Black Jews, including bi-racial Jews of both matrilineal and patrilineal descent; adoptees; black converts to Judaism; and Black Hebrews and Israelites, who trace their Jewish roots to Africa and challenge the dominant western paradigm of Jews as white and of European descent. Blending historical analysis and oral history, Haynes showcases the lives of Black Jews within the Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstruction and Reform movements, as well as the religious approaches that push the boundaries of the common forms of Judaism we know today. He illuminates how in the quest to claim whiteness, American Jews of European descent gained the freedom to express their identity fluidly while African Americans have continued to be seen as a fixed racial group. This book demonstrates that racial ascription has been shaping Jewish selfhood for centuries. Pushing us to reassess the boundaries between race and ethnicity, it offers insight into how Black Jewish individuals strive to assert their dual identities and find acceptance within their respective communities. Putting to rest the simplistic notion that Jews are white and that Black Jews are therefore a contradiction, the volume argues that we can no longer pigeonhole Black Hebrews and Israelites as exotic, militant, and nationalistic sects outside the boundaries of mainstream Jewish thought and community life. The volume spurs us to consider the significance of the growing population of self-identified Black Jews and its implications for the future of American Jewry.
