Dissenter In Zion

Author : Judah Leon Magnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0674212835

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Dissenter in Zion by Judah Leon Magnes Pdf

For nearly half a century, until his death in October 1948, Judah Magnes occupied a singular place in Jewish public life. He won fame early as a preacher and communal leader, but abandoned these pursuits at the height of his influence for the roles of political dissenter and moral gadfly. During World War I he became an outspoken pacifist and supporter of radical causes. Settling permanently in Palestine in 1922, he was a founder and the first president of the Hebrew University. Increasingly, he viewed rapprochement with the Arabs as the practical and moral test of Zionism, and the formation of a bi-national state of Arabs and Jews became his chief political goal. His life interests thus focused on the core issues that confronted and still confront the Jewish people: group survival in democratic America, the direction and character of the return to Zion, and thereconciliation of universal ideals with Jewish aspirations and needs. Dissenter in Zion draws upon a rich corpus of private letters, personal journals, and diaries to offer a moving account of an eloquent and sensitive person grappling with the great questions of the day and of an activist striving to translate private moral feelings into public deeds through politics and diplomacy. We see Magnes disagreeing with Brandeis over the leadership and direction of American Zionism and with Weizmann and Ben-Gurion over ways to achieve peaceful relations with the Arabs; defending himself against charges by Einstein that he was mismanaging the affairs of the Hebrew University; and persistently negotiating with Arab leaders, trying to reach a compromise on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. Dissenter in Zion also contains a biographical essay on Magnes by Arthur Goren, assessing his ideas and motives and placing him in the context of his times. It shows Magnes's profundity without covering up his weaknesses, his lifelong tactic for courting repeated defeat in favor of long-term goals that could not come to pass in his lifetime.

Author : William M. Brinner,Moses Rischin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791497531

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Like All the Nations? by William M. Brinner,Moses Rischin Pdf

This is the first study to examine the career of one of the most prominent American Zionists. Intellectually brilliant, socially and religiously committed, Judah Magnes was an inspiring speaker, reformer, and organizer. Sixteen leading American and Israeli scholars here focus their critical attention on the social, cultural, political, and theological themes central to Magnes' life. Contributors chronicle Magnes' life from his birth in California in 1877 to his death in 1948—the year of the founding of the State of Israel, focusing successively on his youth and education, his seminal years on New York's Lower East Side, his place among the pioneers of American Zionism, his role as a founder of the first Hebrew University, and his relentless efforts to unite Arabs and Jews. Magnes was deeply committed to a Jewish renaissance, but did not see the prospering of Israel in isolation from its Arab peoples. In this insistence he was constant, and often unique. It is particularly in retrospect that we now realize the importance of Magnes' insistence that the Arab problem must be solved in order to establish a viable Israeli state. Both through the range of his involvements and the integrity of his quest, Magnes has left his mark on Jewish history. The contributors to this volume, who include two of the most diligent scholars of the man and of his times—Paul Mendes-Flohr and Arthur Goren—help illuminate the life, work, and legacy of Judah L. Magnes.

Author : Benny Morris
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300156041

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One State, Two States by Benny Morris Pdf

“What is so striking about Morris’s work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone’s prejudices, least of all his own,” David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris’s 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. With the same commitment to objectivity that has consistently characterized his approach, Morris now turns his attention to the present-day legacy of the events of 1948 and the concrete options for the future of Palestine and Israel. The book scrutinizes the history of the goals of the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist movement, then considers the various one- and two-state proposals made by different streams within the two movements. It also looks at the willingness or unwillingness of each movement to find an accommodation based on compromise. Morris assesses the viability and practicality of proposed solutions in the light of complicated and acrimonious realities. Throughout his groundbreaking career, Morris has reshaped understanding of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Here, once again, he arrives at a new way of thinking about the discord, injecting a ray of hope in a region where it is most sorely needed.

Author : David Barak-Gorodetsky
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780827618824

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Judah Magnes by David Barak-Gorodetsky Pdf

This comprehensive intellectual biography of Judah Magnes--the Reform rabbi, American Zionist leader, and inaugural Hebrew University chancellor--offers novel analysis of how theology and politics intertwined to drive Magnes's writings and activism--especially his championing of a binational state--against all odds. Like a prophet unable to suppress his prophecy, Magnes could not resist a religious calling to take political action, whatever the cost. In Palestine no one understood his uniquely American pragmatism and insistence that a constitutional system was foundational for a just society. Jewish leaders regarded his prophetic politics as overly conciliatory and dangerous for negotiations. Magnes's central European allies in striving for a binational Palestine, including Martin Buber, credited him with restoring their faith in politics, but they ultimately retreated from binationalism to welcome the new State of Israel. In candidly portraying the complex Magnes as he understood himself, David Barak-Gorodetsky elucidates why Magnes persevered, despite evident lack of Arab interest, to advocate binationalism with Truman in May 1948 at the ultimate price of Jewish sovereignty. Accompanying Magnes on his long-misunderstood journey, we gain a unique broader perspective: on early peacemaking efforts in Israel/Palestine, the American Jewish role in the history of the state, binationalism as political theology, an American view of binationalism, and the charged realities of Israel today.

Author : Monty Noam Penkower
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644696774

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Israel by Monty Noam Penkower Pdf

The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the beleaguered Jewish people, as a phoenix ascending of ancient legend, achieved national self-determination in the reborn State of Israel within three years of the end of World War II and of the Holocaust. They include the pivotal 1946 World Zionist Congress, the contributions of Jacob Robinson and Clark M. Eichelberger to Israel’s sovereign renewal, American Jewry’s crusade to save a Jewish state, the effort to create a truce and trusteeship for Palestine, and Judah Magnes’s final attempt to create a federated state there. Joining extensive archival research and a lucid prose, Professor Monty Noam Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft.

Author : Margaret McGlynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0511057377

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The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court by Margaret McGlynn Pdf

Margaret McGlynn examines legal education at the Inns of Court in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century.

Author : S. Ilan Troen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031509148

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Israel/Palestine in World Religions by S. Ilan Troen Pdf

Author : Chaim I. Waxman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814343418

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American Aliya by Chaim I. Waxman Pdf

The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zionism, aliya, and the Jewish experience. Chapters include "Zion in Jewish culture," a synopsis of Zionism through the years, and "American Jewry and the land of Israel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," an account of proto-Zionist ideas and movements in early America. Chaim I. Waxman delivers a broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel - aliya. Working within the context of the sociology of migration, Waxman provides primary research into a variety of dimensions of this movement and demonstrates the inadequacy of current migration theories to characterize aliya.

Author : Jerold S. Auerbach
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781644691069

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Print to Fit by Jerold S. Auerbach Pdf

After Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, Zionism and the eventual reality of the State of Israel were framed within his guiding principle, embraced by his Sulzberger family successor, that Judaism is a religion and not a national identity. Apprehensive lest the loyalty of American Jews to the United States be undermined by the existence of a Jewish state, they adopted an anti-Zionist critique that remained embedded in its editorials, on the Opinion page and in its news coverage. Through the examination of evidence drawn from its own pages, this book analyzes how all the news “fit to print” became news that fit the Times’ discomfort with the idea, and since 1948 the reality, of a thriving democratic Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jewish people.

Author : Naomi Wiener Cohen
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Israel and the diaspora
ISBN : 1584653469

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The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948 by Naomi Wiener Cohen Pdf

The author demonstrates the uniqueness of American Zionism through a 50-year historical overview of the Jewish community in the United States and its relationship to its own government, to European events and to political developments in the yishuv.

Author : Naomi Wiener Cohen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 0814319149

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The Year After the Riots by Naomi Wiener Cohen Pdf

In August, 1929, Arabs in Palestine rose up in bloody riots against Jews. More than 130 Jews were killed, among them eight young American students. American Jews, hampered by the postwar mood of disillusionment and isolationism and by the vicious anti-Semitic attacks of the 1920s, failed to mount an effective campaign to influence either the government or public opinion. In addition, the community itself was hopelessly divided. Rival factions, some led by men who frequently sacrificed issue for ego, could not counter the anti-Zionist case. In The Year After the Riots, Naomi W. Cohen makes the first in-depth study of American responses to the riots and reveals the isolation and weaknesses of American Jewry. Official noninvolvement, anti-Semitism, and Jewish disunity are presented as an ominous prologue to the Hitler era."

Author : Gloria G. Samson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018297635

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The American Fund for Public Service by Gloria G. Samson Pdf

This study examines one organization from the radical left of the 1920s and 1930s, the American Fund for Public Service, which represented a united front of anarchists, socialists, communists, and left-liberals in attempting to end capitalism and war.

Author : Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0814320309

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Divided Passions by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr Pdf

Paul Mendes-Flohr is emerging as the leading Jewish intellectual historian of the present generation. In particular, he is responsible for a significant amount of the important and pertinent scholarship in the field of German-Jewish intellectual history. No one else is quite as intimately knowledgeable with this material, the ambiguous legacy of one of the most inventive and poignant episodes of creativity in the life of the Diaspora. Divided Passions is a collection of published and unpublished essays and articles by Paul Mendes-Flohr from the past decade. In a manner that underscores their continued relevance and significance, Mendes-Flohr writes about the problems that Buber, Rosenzweig, Bloch, Simon, Scholem and others tried to crystallize and resolve. Mendes-Flohr moves with effortless authority among the disciplines of theology, philosophy, literature, history, and sociology. Fitted with these interdisciplinary resources, he enriches his treatment of themes and figures in ways that exceed the scope, to say nothing of the execution, found in other literature. The book conveys a rare metaphysical depth, for questions of faith, identity, and Dasein explored by the intellectual figures of the past are also personal ones for the author as well. Mendes-Flohr's exceptional ability to keep this body of work alive and available provides an outstanding source of commentary on the subjects that dominate the agenda of modern Jewish studies.

Author : Ussama Makdisi
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586488567

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Faith Misplaced by Ussama Makdisi Pdf

The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the nineteenth century as a favorable exchange of cultural understanding and economic opportunity deteriorated with America's increasing interest in oil, and finally collapsed when America's pushed for the legitimization of the State of Israel. In this provocative new book, Lebanese-American historian Ussama Makdisi explores America's fractured relationship with the Arab world, and offers policy recommendations that can lead to its repair.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073002300

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Jewish Affairs by Anonim Pdf