Download or read book The Jewish Challenge Or The Vicissitudes of Judaism in the West written by Frederick Seager and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jewish Challenge written by Frederic Seager and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Jewish history in the West. Discusses, inter alia, Christian anti-Judaism; antisemitism in the late 19th century, including the Dreyfus Affair; Russian antisemitism in the early 20th century, and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"; Hitler's rise to power and Nazi ideology; worldwide immigration restrictions against Jews; President Roosevelt's inaction, and antisemitism in the U.S. Mentions two results of the Nazi genocide - there has been a decline of antisemitism in the West, and the Jews have recognized the role played by Christian teaching in the Holocaust. Although there has been some reform in Christian teaching, antisemitism cannot be eradicated from Christianity. Suggests that diaspora Jews educate the masses toward a better understanding of Judaism, and that Jewish missionary activity would help combat antisemitism.
Download or read book How the West Became Antisemitic written by Ivan G. Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God’s chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In How the West Became Antisemitic, Ivan Marcus shows how Christian and Jewish competition in medieval Europe laid the foundation for modern antisemitism. Marcus explains that Jews accepted Christians as misguided practitioners of their ancestral customs, but regarded Christianity as idolatry. Christians, on the other hand, looked at Jews themselves—not Judaism—as despised. They directed their hatred at a real and imagined Jew: theoretically subordinate, but sometimes assertive, an implacable “enemy within.” In their view, Jews were permanently and physically Jewish—impossible to convert to Christianity. Thus Christians came to hate Jews first for religious reasons, and eventually for racial ones. Even when Jews no longer lived among them, medieval Christians could not forget their former neighbors. Modern antisemitism, based on the imagined Jew as powerful and world dominating, is a transformation of this medieval hatred. A sweeping and well-documented history of the rivalry between Jewish and Christian civilizations during the making of Europe, How the West Became Antisemitic is an ambitious new interpretation of the medieval world and its impact on modernity.
Download or read book The Journal of Jewish Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Should Jews Survive written by Michael Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found a second focus in the state of Israel, the ultimate refuge of Jews worldwide. But Rabbi Michael Goldberg finds that these twin pillars of Jewish identity are brittle, and have already begun to crumble; they will not be enough to support or sustain the next generation. The time has come to answer the question: Why should Jews survive? In this provocative book, Goldberg launches a bold attack on what he calls the "Holocaust cult," challenging Jews to return to a deeper, richer sense of purpose. He argues that this cult--with shrines like the U.S. Holocaust Museum, high priests such as Elie Wiesel, and rites like UJA death camp pilgrimages--is deeply destructive of Jewish identity. As the current "master story" of Judaism, Goldberg writes, the Holocaust has been used to depict Jews as uniquely victimized in human history--transforming them from God's chosen to those who manage to survive despite God's silent complicity in their persecution. This Holocaust-centered, survival-for-survival's-sake Judaism is already showing its emptiness, Goldberg contends; the generation that survived Hitler and founded Israel is dying, and the new generation seems adrift (for instance, one recent survey predicts that 70% of American Jewish marriages will be intermarriages by the turn of the century). Jews need positive reasons for remaining Jewish, he argues; they need to return to the Exodus as their master story--the story of God leading the Jews out of slavery and making with them an eternal covenant that gave the Jews a unique place in God's plan. The Jews should survive, Goldberg concludes, because they are the linchpin in God's redemption of the world. Rabbi Michael Goldberg has long wrestled with the crisis of identity facing today's Jewish community. In Why Should Jews Survive?, he provides a provocative and powerfully argued challenge to the dominant theme of modern Jewish thought.
Download or read book A Partisan History of Judaism written by Elmer Berger and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Jewish Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author and subject index to selected and American Anglo-Jewish journals of general and scholarly interests.
Download or read book Jewish Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jewish Problem and Its Final Solution written by K. David Turner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jewish Problem and its Final Solution: Modernity and Destiny" traces two-thousand years of the West's Jewish Problem from its emergence at the birth of Christianity to its modern secular adaptation as the "Jewish Question." The book describes the backlash of western society to the legal promise of Jewish emancipation in the nineteenth century. That promise had a backlash in the form of antisemitic political parties and, in the 20th century, German National Socialism with a political platform and agenda for achieving a final solution to the West's two-thousand years Jewish Problem. It is consoling to believe that the Holocaust is, as often described by scholars and clergy, was an event unique in History. This book rejects that assertion as dangerous, as feeding Denial regarding the true nature of the danger Jews face in the Diaspora. It describes instead a systematic history of a pathology first described in 1882 by the early Zionist Leon Pinsker. The Jewish Problem is a pathology in which a tiny Jewish minority is feared as alien and demonic, a gospel-described threat to Christendom. To German science Jews were considered a pathogen justifying extermination, a deadly virus endangering human existence itself. Christian doctrine generally saw the solution to its Jewish Problem as the disappearance of Jews through conversion. To secular society, conversion has no value. With modern science and technology, society has available a far more effective solution to the West's Jewish Problem. Israeli Holocaust historian Alex Bein warned that "almost all periods of great violence... have caught the Jews by surprise... persecutions began with particular severity and intensity especially when the Jews position was so secure... there was no thought of attacks and major violence-at least not in their country, their house." Vice President Biden issued a similar warning to his Jewish audience in 2014: [You know] "in your bones [that] there is really only one absolute guarantee, and that's the state of Israel."
Download or read book Target written by David Chagall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before World War 2, there was a total of sixteen million Jews in the world--over one fourth were sephardic Spanish Jews, tracing their ancestral lineage from the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Hitler engineered the genocide of six million Jews, almost all of them Ashkenazic or European Jews, descended from the Khazars, a pagan people from west Asia that converted to Judaism in the 8th century A.D. Who were the Khazars? And why did their legacy result in persecution and death? Why have the Sephardim called the Ashkenazim "Tedescos"--Teutons? This important book shifts the basic question of the Holocaust from "Why the Jews?" to "Why the Ashkenazim?" Challenging the myths of religious bigotry--since the ancestors of Ashkenazic Jews were nomadic Gentile Huns who galloped around the Steppes of Asia at the time Jesus was crucified--TARGET shows just where the true bloodlines of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are centered. On a deeper level, it explores the more complex geo-political roots of anti-Jewish feelings, the amazing number of prominent and influential Ashkenazim, and their role in the emergence of modern Israel. Timely and incisive, TARGET presents new and incontrovertible genetic and DNA evidence that supports a long-overdue examination of "Who is a Jew" and who exactly are "The Chosen People." Buffered by strong historical evidence and documentation, this is a work that will forever change the way the reader looks at the complex question of Jewish identity.
Download or read book Fate and Destiny written by Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Soloveitchik presents an extended theological meditation on the Holocaust and the rise of the State of Israel, a profound examination of the Jewish covenant of faith and the covenant of fate and destiny which links all Jews, religious, irreligious and non-religious. This covenant of faith manifests itself in shared circumstances, shared responsibility and shared activity. Fate and destiny likewise links all Jews, but while fate is thrust upon the Jews, destiny is freely chosen by the individual Jew and the Jewish people by adopting a Torah lifestyle and possesses both significance and purpose.
Download or read book The Rise of the Jew in the Western World written by Uriah Zevi Engelman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art of Estrangement written by Pamela Anne Patton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the influential role of visual images in reinforcing the efforts of Spain's Christian-ruled kingdoms to renegotiate the role of their Jewish minority following the territorial expansions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Judaism as a Civilization written by Mordecai M. Kaplan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary book by a revolutionary thinker. Mordecai Kaplan was a true polymath, a philosopher, an early student of sociology and a learned rabbi in his own right. He saw in America a community within Judaism who needed a faith and a community which was relatable, applicable and possible to integrate fully into modern life. Judaism as a Civilization, aside from having launched a whole religious tradition, is full of sublimely formed arguments, a sense of the historical and theological situation of Judaism and the philosophical approach of medieval and modern theorists. Skipping lightly on from a review of Locke and Voltaire, Kaplan ventures into the economic realities of supporting a community and an accompanying religious apparatus, and the theological openness required to allow unfettered excellence. Kaplan challenged the normative nature of Jewish law, proposed a less literal conception of God and a fresh and egalitarian approach to the application of Jewish tradition in the modern world. He takes the position that Judaism and its adherents need to take radical action to reinvigorate community and faith and is inspiring in his advice. 'More dangerous to Judaism by far than challenge, opposition and even misinterpretation is the deadening acquiescence of apathy. The lack of controversial writing about Judaism, especially in English, does not mean that there is inward peace in Israel; it betokens the peace of stagnation. This spiritual stagnation in America must be disturbed, and if some of the views expressed in this book will produce the slightest ripple in American-Jewish thinking, the book will have served a useful purpose'. 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 Antisemitism written by Susan Sarah Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indestructible Jews written by Max I. Dimont and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume 2 The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
