Judah Magnes

Author : David Barak-Gorodetsky
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780827618831

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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 : David Barak-Gorodetsky
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : William M. Brinner,Moses Rischin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Judah Leon Magnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Daniel P. Kotzin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815651093

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Judah L. Magnes by Daniel P. Kotzin Pdf

Judah L. Magnes (1877-1948) was an American Reform rabbi, Jewish community leader, and active pacifist during World War I. In the 1920s he moved to British Mandatory Palestine, where he helped found and served as first chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, in the 1930s and 1940s, he emerged as the leading advocate for the binational plan for Palestine. In these varied roles, he actively participated in the major transformations in American Jewish life and the Zionist movement during the first half of the twentieth century. Kotzin tells the story of how Magnes, immersed in American Jewish life, Zionism, and Jewish life in Mandatory Palestine, rebelled against the dominant strains of all three. His tireless efforts ensured that Jewish public life was vibrant and diverse, and not controlled by any one faction within Jewry. Magnes brought American ideals to Palestine, and his unique conception of Zionism shaped Jewish public life in Palestine, influencing both the development of the Hebrew University and Zionist policy toward Arabs.

Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Jewish community centers
ISBN : 0874518938

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Shul with a Pool by David Kaufman Pdf

The evolution of an American institution that reflects the unique tension between Judaism and Jewishness.

Author : Jonathan B. Krasner
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781611682939

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The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education by Jonathan B. Krasner Pdf

The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education

Author : Harriet Rochlin,Fred Rochlin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0618001964

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Pioneer Jews by Harriet Rochlin,Fred Rochlin Pdf

Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.

Author : Jason Kalman
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878201204

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Hebrew Union College and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Jason Kalman Pdf

The bare outline of the story of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is well known both to scholars and in the popular imagination. The precise details--the sequence and causal interplay of events, even some of the key players behind the scenes--are less well known and sometimes completely forgotten or misconstrued. The recovery of this history in all its complexity is vital for understanding how and why scholarly work on the Scrolls developed as it did over the six decades during which the texts were slowly published. Jason Kalman recovers the fascinating story of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's involvement with the Dead Sea Scrolls from their discovery in 1948 until the early 1990s when they were first made accessible to all scholars and to the public. Scholars at HUC-JIR actively participated in efforts to acquire and preserve the manuscripts and played a significant part in breaking the monopoly of scholars initially assigned to publish them. Despite these activities, a number of HUC-JIR's influential teachers took a negative view of the scrolls. As a consequence, rabbinical students either did not encounter the material or left the institution with a view of it that was far from the mainstream. This book traces the activities of HUC-JIR's administration and faculty over five decades, the contribution they made to the new academic field, and their influence on how knowledge of the Dead Sea Scrolls was shared with the community at large. Many details about security negatives stored at HUC and about the bootleg reconstruction are revealed for the first time.

Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0814321860

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United States Jewry, 1776-1985 by Jacob Rader Marcus Pdf

Author : Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum,Ruth Eis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038569278

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Twenty-five Years, Judah L. Magnes Museum by Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum,Ruth Eis Pdf

Author : Norman Bentwich
Publisher : London : East & West Library
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Zionists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034087960

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Judah L. Magnes by Norman Bentwich Pdf

Author : Israel J. Katz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004432475

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Robert Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer (from 1923 to 1938) by Israel J. Katz Pdf

Robert Lachmann’s letters to Henry George Farmer provide insightful glimpses into his life and the successive research projects he undertook concerning Arab urban music from North Africa and later Arab and Jewish music traditions in Palestine.

Author : Robert Seltzer,Norman J. Cohen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814780015

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The Americanization of the Jews by Robert Seltzer,Norman J. Cohen Pdf

Assesses the current state of American Jewish life, drawing on the research and thinking of scholars from a variety of disciplines and diverse points of view.

Author : Matthew Silver
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815651987

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Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America by Matthew Silver Pdf

A milestone in modern Jewish history and American ethnic history, the sweeping influence of Louis Marshall’s career through the 1920s is unprecedented. A tireless advocate for and leader of an array of notable American Jewish organizations and institutions, Marshall also spearheaded civil rights campaigns for other ethnic groups, blazing the trail for the NAACP, Native American groups, and environmental protection causes in the early twentieth century. No comprehensive biography has been published that does justice to Marshall’s richly diverse life as an impassioned defender of Jewish communal interests and as a prominent attorney who reportedly argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other attorney of his era. Silver eloquently fills that gap, tracing Marshall’s career in detail to reveal how Jewish subgroups of Eastern European immigrants and established Central European elites interacted in New York City and elsewhere to fuse distinctive communal perspectives on specific Jewish issues and broad American affairs. Through the chronicle of Marshall’s life, Silver sheds light on immigration policies, Jewish organizational and social history, environmental activism, and minority politics during World War I, and he bears witness to the rise of American Jewish ethnicity in pre-Holocaust America.