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Not too long ago, few Jews—or Christians, for that matter—would have had difficulty justifying the existence of a Jewish state. The destruction of European Jewry left a profound impression on the…
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Yoram Hazony
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Jerusalem, Israel
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2000
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Is the Holocaust definable? Is it desirable to define it? After all, definitions are abstractions from reality and are useful only insofar as they help us to better understand the world around us. Any…
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Yehuda Bauer
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Jerusalem, Israel
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2001
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Israel is the cause of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
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Alan Dershowitz
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Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
2003
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The fundamental issue surrounding the use of archaeological material to illuminate the Bible duplicates the classic Torah u-Madda question: How ought we to make use of wisdom or learning that can…
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Lawrence H. Schiffman
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New York, United States of America
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2003
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Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of…
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Susan Sontag
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New York, United States of America
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2003
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The ancient Judaic midrash paved the way for a certain type of biblical hermeneutics while also using the master pre-Text as a pretext for creating a new tale. The midrash is the prototype of creative…
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Nehama Aschkenasy
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Stamford, United States of America
Date:
2004
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In 1947, when Kurt Weill’s orchestral arrangement of Hatikva received its world premiere in New York, it was still—as it had been for decades—the anthem of the modern Zionist movement, expressing the…
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Neil W. Levin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2004
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The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century. Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually…
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Yuri Slezkine
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
2004
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My mother’s interview with the Grandmother went on late into the night. First, Rebecca took a long look at her daughter-in-law, betraying her shortsightedness by getting very close and peering into…
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Anita Diamant
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Newton, United States of America
Date:
1997
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Jakob Fandler took uneasy note of the changes in his son. It was as if a stranger he had known for a long time and then banned from his life, had suddenly shown up and moved in with him. He had…
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Doron Rabinovici
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
1997