Love Or Perish A Holocaust Survivor S Vision For Interfaith Peace

Author : Harold Kasimow
Publisher : Ipub Global Connection, LLC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1948575558

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Love Or Perish: A Holocaust Survivor's Vision for Interfaith Peace by Harold Kasimow Pdf

In Love or Perish: A Holocaust Survivor's Vision of Interfaith Peace, Harold Kasimow speaks broadly to the why of an epic tragedy like no other in our history, the Holocaust. Each chapter addresses specific questions around this issue and attempts to present proposed solutions to the inevitable issues: how the Holocaust could happen, the search for meaning and for blame, how could God allow this to happen, and the struggle to rise above it after all the suffering. The indifference to human suffering was and remains rampant. How does a person or a society learn from such a horrific example of human depravity and indifference? Mass murder and suffering on an unimaginable scale opens wounds that may never completely heal. Kasimow's own thoughts and perspectives are blended in this narrative with the insight of select scholars and thinkers, some personal associates and mentors, each addressing aspects of this tragedy. All of us not only address the realities of the Holocaust but humanity's collective future and collective responsibility to each other.Kasimow asks where do we go from here? We are standing at a very real crossroads, you and I, with a cosmic choice: learn to live and love together or perish together. It is that simple. Clearly, we have the capacity to do horrible things to each other, sometimes in the name of nationalism, sometimes in the name of a conjured and vengeful, bloodthirsty god. Sometimes, just because we can. Sometimes, just from evil itself. But we also have the capacity to love and respect each other and help each other achieve greatness.There is a simple choice. Just because we are capable of monstrous evil, should we then just be evil, or indifferent to it? Or should we rise above it? Life has always been about choices, our choices, of what to do or what to become. It has always been about our belief in ourselves, our God, our fellows, and our future together. Kasimow notes that the choice of which path to follow is ours to make

Author : Max Amichai Heppner,Max B Heppner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0692444394

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A Vision of Love for Christians and Jews by Max Amichai Heppner,Max B Heppner Pdf

A VISION OF LOVE FOR CHRISTIANS AND JEWS details how I found my own way to peace and how that can inform others, both Christians and Jews, who live in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Readers will learn to deal with each other peacefully and with mutual support for living in the society we share.Deriving anything positive from the Holocaust has been described as "drawing honey from the rock." The process is daunting, yet several authors have attempted it. Some have extensive academic credentials. Mine are more humble and more earthy. I am a Holocaust survivor, and actually a reluctant explorer of "honey in the rock." Yet after the searing experiences of my youth, I have felt driven to explore why two religions, so similar in origin, so contiguous, so founded in the search for our link to the divine, came to such disastrous enmity. I believe that if we can't fathom what has contributed to the chasm between Christianity and Judaism, we may face another disaster like the Holocaust.A VISION OF LOVE came out of this urgent personal pursuit. I think it is of vital interest to present it to both faith communities. Broad-thinking Christians need to hear how anti-Jewish sentiment has hurt us and continues to do so. Jews need to read the book because we have slipped into a generally passive and inactive mode vis-à-vis Christians. Most of us have not taken note of--much less taken hope from-- efforts centered in the Vatican to redress the evils of church-sponsored Jew-hatred.

Author : Belle Millo
Publisher : Belle Millo
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780969125693

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Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors by Belle Millo Pdf

Author : Ariel Burger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781328802699

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Witness by Ariel Burger Pdf

"In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protaegae and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher"--

Author : Sandy Tolan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781547603954

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The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition) by Sandy Tolan Pdf

The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. “Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible.”--School Library Journal In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave nineteen years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was eleven months old. On the stoop of this shared house, Dalia and Bashir began a surprising friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and later tested as political tensions ran high and Israelis and Palestinians each asserted their own right to live on this land. Adapted from the award-winning adult book and based on Sandy Tolan's extensive research and reporting, The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home.

Author : Magdalena Dziaczkowska,Adele Valeria Messina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004425958

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Jews in Dialogue by Magdalena Dziaczkowska,Adele Valeria Messina Pdf

Jews in Dialogue discusses Jewish post-Holocaust involvement in interreligious and intercultural dialogue in Israel, Europe, and the United States. The essays within offer a multiplicity of approaches and perspectives (historical, sociological, theological, etc.) on how Jews have collaborated and cooperated with non-Jews to respond to the challenges of multicultural contemporaneity. The volume’s first part is about the concept of dialogue itself and its potential for effecting change; the second part documents examples of successful interreligious cooperation. The volume includes an appendix designed to provide context for the material presented in the first part, especially with regard to relations between the State of Israel and the Catholic Church.

Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289789

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Modern Peoplehood by John Lie Pdf

"[A] most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—'well-read' mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive, historically grounded theory of 'modern peoplehood,' which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names 'race,' 'ethnicity,' and nationality.'" Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls 'modern peoplehood.' His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

Author : Levy Daniella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9659254008

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Letters to Josep by Levy Daniella Pdf

This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.

Author : D. A. Carson
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1581344252

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Love in Hard Places by D. A. Carson Pdf

A readable guide for helping Christians understand what biblical forgiveness and biblical love really look like in the painful situations in life.

Author : Byron L. Sherwin,Harold Kasimow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597524049

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John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue by Byron L. Sherwin,Harold Kasimow Pdf

In the first book to explore Pope John Paul II's view on interreligious dialogue, leading scholars from Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism respond to his writings and speeches on their respective traditions, and the relationship between those faiths and Catholicism. Contributors: -Pope John Paul II -The XIV Dalai Lama -Robert Aitken -Masao Abe -Jose Ignacio Cabezon -David M. Gordis -Mahmoud Ayoub -Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi -Michael L. Fitzgerald -Wayne Teasdale

Author : F. Schweitzer,M. Perry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781403979124

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Anti-Semitism by F. Schweitzer,M. Perry Pdf

In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that anti-semites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present day, the authors explore the irrational fabrications that have led to numerous acts of violence and hatred against Jews. The book examines ancient and medieval myths central to the history of anti-semitism: Jews as 'Christ-killers', instruments of Satan, and ritual murderers of Christian children. It also explores the scapegoating of Jews in the modern world as conspirators bent on world domination; extortionists who manufactured the Holocaust as a hoax designed to gain reparation payments from Germany; and the leaders of the slave trade that put Africa in chains. No other book has focused its attention exclusively on a thematic discussion of historic and contemporary anti-semitic myths, covering such an expansive scope of time, and allowing for such a painstaking level of exemplification. Anti-semitism is an essential book that will serve as a corrective to bigotry, stereotype, and historical distortion.

Author : Ali Rogin
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781635767100

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Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss by Ali Rogin Pdf

Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Athena Jones, and other breast cancer survivors and “previvors” tell their powerful, inspiring stories in this collection. Drawing from first-hand interviews of successful, high-profile women from myriad industries and perspectives, award-winning journalist Ali Rogin brings together an all-star support and recovery team to inspire anyone confronting a cancer diagnosis, along with their loved ones. Learn how preeminent actresses, musicians, politicians, journalists, and entrepreneurs faced a formidable disease and put it in its place. In their own words, the women of Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss inform and encourage other women by sharing their experiences and advice. Learn how they told loved ones about their diagnoses, navigated treatment options, and managed the work/life/cancer balance. Rogin, too, faced great uncertainty when she tested positively for the BRCA1 genetic mutation at age twenty. She found answers in the vibrant community of breast cancer survivors and “previvors” who also stared down the odds. With her brave decision to undergo a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy before even graduating college, Rogin joined this diverse sisterhood of women confronting breast cancer in its many forms with dignity, strength, and humor.

Author : Harold Kasimow,Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725224193

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No Religion Is an Island by Harold Kasimow,Byron L. Sherwin Pdf

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel remains one of the most important figures in American Jewish-Christian relations nearly twenty years after his death. He had a penetrating mind that was never arrogant and a moral passion that never moralized. Together, the thirteen essays of this book testify to his enduring legacy. Beginning with Rabbi Heschel's own "No Religion Is An Island," these writings--by men and women who knew him, studied under him, and struggled with him, people from South Asian, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions--reveal the humble yet soaring spirit of a person who know God transcended the barriers of nation, culture, religion, and historical enmity. As these essays demonstrate, Heschel was spiritual guide to people of many faiths. He won the admiration of men and women in many lands and traditions. Firmly rooted in his own Jewishness, he evoked the genius of other traditions, inspiring believers of all kinds to labor toward a more humane world. Contributors: the editors, Heschel's daughter Susannah, Jacob Y. Teshima, Daniel Berrigan, John C. Merkle, Eugene J. Fisher, John C. Bennett, Fredrick C. Holmgren, Riffat Hassan, Arvind Sharma, Antony Fernando, and Kenneth B. Smith.

Author : Victoria Aarons,Alan L. Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 0810134098

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Third-generation Holocaust Representation by Victoria Aarons,Alan L. Berger Pdf

Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of the literature of these writers, this bold new work examines those structures, ironies, disjunctions, and tensions that produce a literature lamenting loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust. Aarons and Berger address evolving notions of “postmemory"; the intergenerational transmission of trauma; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; generational dislocation and anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and alienation; the imaginative reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation.

Author : Caleb Iyer Elfenbein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479820528

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Fear in Our Hearts by Caleb Iyer Elfenbein Pdf

Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values In a 2018 national poll, over ninety percent of respondents reported that treating people equally is an essential American value. Almost eighty percent said accepting people of different racial backgrounds is very important. Yet about half of the general public reported that they doubt whether Muslims can truly dedicate themselves to American values and society. Why do many people who say they believe in equality and acceptance of those of different backgrounds also think that Muslims could be an exception to that rule? In Fear in Our Hearts, Caleb Iyer Elfenbein examines Islamophobia in the United States, positing that rather than simply being an outcome of the 9/11 attacks, anti-Muslim activity grows out of a fear of difference that has always characterized US public life. Elfenbein examines the effects of this fear on American Muslims, as well as describing how it works to shape and distort American society. Drawing on over 1,800 news reports documenting anti-Muslim activity, Elfenbein pinpoints trends, draws connections to the broader histories of immigration, race, identity, belonging, and citizenship in the US, and examines how Muslim communities have responded. In the face of public fear and hate, American Muslim communities have sought to develop connections with non-Muslims through unprecedented levels of community transparency, outreach, and public engagement efforts. Despite the hostile environment that has made these efforts necessary, American Muslims have faced down their own fears to offer a model for building communities and creating more welcoming conditions of public life for everyone. Arguing that anti-Muslim activity tells us as much about the state of core American values in general as it does about the particular experiences of American Muslims, this compelling look at Muslims in America offers practical ideas about how we can create a more welcoming public life for all in our everyday lives.