Respect For The Jews

Author : Franz Posset
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532670923

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Respect for the Jews by Franz Posset Pdf

Eight different historical-theological studies are assembled here under the title Respect for the Jews. They focus primarily on positive Catholic attitudes toward Jews during the turbulent years of the first half of the sixteenth century. The number of authors and texts are relatively small, but need to be brought out into the open. For the first time, a speech in praise of the language of the Jews by the early ecumenist, Georg Witzel (1501-1573), is made available in English. Other Catholic Hebraists who are featured include Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), Matthaeus Adrianus (ca. 1470-1521), Robert Wakefield (died 1537), and Nicolaus Winmann (ca. 1500-1550). Their brilliant works are presented in front of the sinister backdrop of the vicious attacks against the Jews by the well-educated Catholic convert of Jewish descent, Johann Pfefferkorn (ca. 1469-1521), a self-appointed Catholic missionary to the Jews, and also against the background of the scandalous outbursts of the Grobian Reformer, Martin Luther (1483-1546). Volume 4 of the author's Collected Works fosters the idea that Jews and Christians are "study partners," rather than antagonists--as visualized in the new statue "Synagogue and Church in Our Time" (as shown on the cover).

Author : Kim Treiger-Bar-Am
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793637703

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Freedom and Respect in Jewish Ethics by Kim Treiger-Bar-Am Pdf

This book explores the norms we have and where we want to go with them. The project began by asking people what they think is the central value in society today. The responses point to notions of what seems “right” to people. We can move forward with these intuitions about the main tenet of our moral lives. Respondents named values regarding freedom of the Self, and concern for the Other. Indeed with freedom, we can respect others. And we must. People’s lives are intertwined, and so freedom as a concept cannot be understood without taking account of this reality. The author suggests that the value to be taken as central is the moral freedom of respect. It ought to guide us in designing the society we want to build. The law can be a bridge towards that normative world. Jewish ethics may illuminate the path.

Author : Michèle Lamont,Graziella Moraes Silva,Jessica Welburn,Joshua Guetzkow,Nissim Mizrachi,Hanna Herzog,Elisa Reis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691183404

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Getting Respect by Michèle Lamont,Graziella Moraes Silva,Jessica Welburn,Joshua Guetzkow,Nissim Mizrachi,Hanna Herzog,Elisa Reis Pdf

A comparative look at how discrimination is experienced by stigmatized groups in the United States, Brazil, and Israel Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as the best strategy—whether individually, collectively, through confrontation, or through self-improvement—for dealing with such events. This deeply collaborative and integrated study draws on more than four hundred in-depth interviews with middle- and working-class men and women residing in and around multiethnic cities—New York City, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv—to compare the discriminatory experiences of African Americans, black Brazilians, and Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as Israeli Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi (Sephardic) Jews. Detailed analysis reveals significant differences in group behavior: Arab Palestinians frequently remain silent due to resignation and cynicism while black Brazilians see more stigmatization by class than by race, and African Americans confront situations with less hesitation than do Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahim, who tend to downplay their exclusion. The authors account for these patterns by considering the extent to which each group is actually a group, the sociohistorical context of intergroup conflict, and the national ideologies and other cultural repertoires that group members rely on. Getting Respect is a rich and daring book that opens many new perspectives into, and sets a new global agenda for, the comparative analysis of race and ethnicity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Missions to Jews
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3S1U

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The Jewish Expositor and Friend of Israel by Anonim Pdf

Includes the Proceedings of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : CHI:11364619

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The Jewish Repository, Or Monthly Communications Respecting the Jews and the Proceedings of the London Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Jews
ISBN : MINN:31951002067831J

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A Few Words Respecting the Enfranchisement of British Jews by Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid Pdf

Author : Robert Chazan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139459877

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The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom by Robert Chazan Pdf

Between the years AD 1000 and 1500, western Christendom absorbed by conquest and attracted through immigration a growing number of Jews. This community was to make a valuable contribution to rapidly developing European civilisation but was also to suffer some terrible setbacks, culminating in a series of expulsions from the more advanced westerly areas of Europe. At the same time, vigorous new branches of world Jewry emerged and a rich new Jewish cultural legacy was created. In this important historical synthesis, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish experience over a 500 year period across the entire continent of Europe. As well as being the story of medieval Jewry, the book simultaneously illuminates important aspects of majority life in Europe during this period. This book is essential reading for all students of medieval Jewish history and an important reference for any scholar of medieval Europe.

Author : Christian van Gorder,Gordon Fuller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532690099

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Jews and Christians Together by Christian van Gorder,Gordon Fuller Pdf

Rabbi Gordon Fuller and Dr. Christian van Gorder are committed to helping people of both faith traditions gain, as far as is possible, a participant's appreciation of those from the other community. This means addressing misconceptions and misrepresentations as well as challenging widely held assumptions. Jews and Christians Together delves into the strained relationship between these two faith communities and exposes why these communities need to come to a better understanding and appreciation of the other. Events such as the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania demonstrate why society must address and foil anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism wherever and whenever such views appear. The efforts of Fuller and van Gorder to explore these issues with their own faith communities can provide a helpful starting-point to confront trends of increasing hate and bigotry towards Jews today. Fuller and van Gorder ask us to acknowledge the marred history of Christianity and anti-Semitism, so that we can explore healthy Jewish-Christian dialogue and gain a shared and constructive mutual respect.

Author : Tzvi Freeman,Rabi Menachem M. Schneerson
Publisher : Ezra Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 0826690033

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Wisdom to Heal the Earth by Tzvi Freeman,Rabi Menachem M. Schneerson Pdf

In Bringing Heaven Down To Earth, Tzvi Freeman explored an original means to deliver the wisdom of a great sage of our times, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, known universally as simply "the Rebbe." Using pithy yet highly readable, brief meditations, that book unveiled for us a deeper meaning to life and provided practical guidance to weather its waves and storms. It is a book that changed tens of thousands of lives. Now, in Wisdom to Heal the Earth, Freeman continues with that winning format, this time along with complementary brief essays. But now he takes us yet further, peering toward the Rebbe's vision of a world towards which all humanity is headed, and demonstrating how the details of our everyday lives are vital, crucial, and today especially urgent in reaching that grand and ultimate destiny. In Jewish parlance we call this Tikun Olam"€"the notion that we all enter this world with a mission to accomplish: to repair and perfect our assigned share of the world, so that it can become the world its Creator meant it to be.

Author : Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611683622

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Jews and Diaspora Nationalism by Simon Rabinovitch Pdf

An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum

Author : Charles Leslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1755
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : OCLC:1072962416

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The Case of the Jews by Charles Leslie Pdf

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna,Benjamin Shapell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466864610

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Lincoln and the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna,Benjamin Shapell Pdf

One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts and images, many from the Shapell Lincoln Collection, that show Lincoln in a way he has never been seen before. Lincoln's lifetime coincided with the emergence of Jews on the national scene in the United States. When he was born, in 1809, scarcely 3,000 Jews lived in the entire country. By the time of his assassination in 1865, large-scale immigration, principally from central Europe, had brought that number up to more than 150,000. Many Americans, including members of Lincoln's cabinet and many of his top generals during the Civil War, were alarmed by this development and treated Jews as second-class citizens and religious outsiders. Lincoln, this book shows, exhibited precisely the opposite tendency. He also expressed a uniquely deep knowledge of the Old Testament, employing its language and concepts in some of his most important writings. He befriended Jews from a young age, promoted Jewish equality, appointed numerous Jews to public office, had Jewish advisors and supporters starting already from the early 1850s, as well as later during his two presidential campaigns, and in response to Jewish sensitivities, even changed the way he thought and spoke about America. Through his actions and his rhetoric—replacing "Christian nation," for example, with "this nation under God"—he embraced Jews as insiders. In this groundbreaking work, the product of meticulous research, historian Jonathan D. Sarna and collector Benjamin Shapell reveal how Lincoln's remarkable relationship with American Jews impacted both his path to the presidency and his policy decisions as president. The volume uncovers a new and previously unknown feature of Abraham Lincoln's life, one that broadened him, and, as a result, broadened America.

Author : Steven Greenberg
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780299190934

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Wrestling with God and Men by Steven Greenberg Pdf

For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Traditionally Orthodox Jews, believing the scripture to be the word of God, have rejected homosexuality in accordance with this interpretation. In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality. Wrestling with God and Men is the product of Rabbi Greenberg’s ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities. In this compelling and groundbreaking work, Greenberg challenges long held assumptions of scriptural interpretation and religious identity as he marks a path that is both responsible to human realities and deeply committed to God and Torah. Employing traditional rabbinic resources, Greenberg presents readers with surprising biblical interpretations of the creation story, the love of David and Jonathan, the destruction of Sodom, and the condemning verses of Leviticus. But Greenberg goes beyond the question of whether homosexuality is biblically acceptable to ask how such relationships can be sacred. In so doing, he draws on a wide array of nonscriptural texts to introduce readers to occasions of same-sex love in Talmudic narratives, medieval Jewish poetry and prose, and traditional Jewish case law literature. Ultimately, Greenberg argues that Orthodox communities must open up debate, dialogue, and discussion—precisely the foundation upon which Jewish law rests—to truly deal with the issue of homosexual love. This book will appeal not only to members of the Orthodox faith but to all religious people struggling to resolve their belief in the scriptures with a desire to make their communities more open and accepting to gay and lesbian members. 2005 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, for Religion/Spirituality

Author : J A S Grenville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135745769

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The Jews and Germans of Hamburg by J A S Grenville Pdf

Based on more than thirty years archival research, this history of the Jewish and German-Jewish community of Hamburg is a unique and vivid piece of work by one of the leading historians of the twentieth century. The history of the Holocaust here is fully integrated into the full history of the Jewish community in Hamburg from the late eighteenth century onwards. J.A.S. Grenville draws on a vast quantity of diaries, letters and records to provide a macro level history of Hamburg interspersed with many personal stories that bring it vividly to life. In the concluding chapter the discussion is widened to talk about Hamburg as a case study in the wider world. This book will be a key work in European history, charting and explaining the complexities of how a long established and well integrated German-Jewish community became, within the space of a generation, victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

Author : Michael Shapiro
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1559723939

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Jewish Pride by Michael Shapiro Pdf

A Birch Lane Press book.