| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 18 |
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Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 18.
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| Contents |
Symposium; Jews and Violence: Images, Ideologies, Realities; Essay; Fighting for Palestine and Crimea: Two Jewish Friends from Philadelphia during the First World War and the 1920s; Review Essays; Personal Accounts of the Holocaust: What Can We Glean from Them?; The Slow Death of the Oslo Process; Assimilating, Coalescing, and Spiritual-Seeking: Recent Trends among American Jews; The Political Culture and Social Posture of American Jews; Book Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature, and the Arts |
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Religion, Thought, and EducationZionism, Israel, and the Middle East; Contents for Volume XIX; Note on Editorial Policy |
| Summary |
Volume XVIII of 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry' offers a view of Jews and violence. It construes violence broadly, including deviance and crime, verbal threat and incitement, coercion, force and the resort to arms in individual, collective and communal, and state contexts. The essays span events in Israel, Russia, Germany, and the United States |
| Notes |
Papers contributed as a symposium |
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At head of title: The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Violence -- History -- 20th century
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Judaism and state -- History -- 20th century
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Violence -- Israel
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Jews -- Social conditions
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Judaism and state
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Violence
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Israel
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Medding, Peter
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| ISBN |
0195160096 |
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9780195160093 |
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1423726936 |
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9781423726937 |
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1433700190 |
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9781433700194 |
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