Galut
Galut

Author: Arnold M. Eisen

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Pt. 1 deals with biblical and rabbinic texts on exile and relations with non-Jews. Pt. 2 deals with Zionism and the views of thinkers such as Herzl, Jacob Klatzkin, and Yehezkel Kaufmann, who believed that secular messianism would solve the "Jewish question" and tended to view antisemitism as a natural response to the Jewish refusal to assimilate. Examines changes in the perception of Jewish history as a result of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel.

Galut
Galut

Author: Yitzhak Baer

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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Galut is Hebrew for exile. Since the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine, the Jewish people have considered exile to be a basic tenet of their historical existence. The author, an eminent Palestinian historian, introduces students of Judaic history to the outstanding Jewish spokesmen who throughout the centuries have reflected on their people's condition in exile, among them Judah ha-Levi, Maimonides, Isaac Abravanel, Baruch Spinoza and others. First published in Hebrew, this edition is a reprint of the 1947 Schocken Press English translation, with a new Introduction by Jacob Neusner

Israel, the Ever-dying People, and Other Essays
Israel, the Ever-dying People, and Other Essays

Author: Simon Rawidowicz

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780838632536

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Simon Rawidowicz was a strong advocate of the position that as long as the Diaspora existed, it had to develop an ideology of creative survival enabling it to enter into a relationship of equal partnership with the Jewish community of the Land of Israel. Rawidowicz's son has collected his essays and translated them into English.

The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia
The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia

Author: Mordecai Schreiber

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1589797256

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First published in 1957, this one-volume source for everything Jewish has delighted and instructed several generations in the English-speaking Jewish world. Fully updated through 2007, it provides snapshots and in-depth entries on every important Jewish personality, place, concept, event and value in Israel, the United States, and all other parts of the world.

Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought
Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought

Author: Pesach Schindler

Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780881253108

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Examines responses to the Holocaust of hasidic leaders and their followers during the war years in Europe. Discovers a correlation between these responses and fundamental hasidic tenets dealing with God's relationship to man and to the Jewish people, redemption and the messianic era, Kiddush Hashem and Kiddush ha-Hayyim, the hasidic fraternal bond, and the relationship between the hasid and the zadik or rebbe. Hasidism offered a system of concepts that could be used to interpret the Holocaust, and provided a social framework and leadership to articulate these concepts. These may have served as shock absorbers for the hasidim facing the trauma of Holocaust events.

Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience
Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience

Author: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9004136932

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Professor S.N. Eisenstadt has written numerous essays on Jewish Identity over the years. This volume brings together some of these. The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first monotheistic civilization - without, however, accepting many of Weber's concrete analyses.

The Transformation Of Israeli Society
The Transformation Of Israeli Society

Author: S. N. Eisenstadt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1000306437

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This book discusses the development and organization of the major spheres of life of Israeli society. It analyses major aspects and trends of development of Israeli society which have been taking place continuously since its beginning, from the early period of Zionist settlement in Eretz Israel.