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Is the Jewish tradition inherently liberal or inherently conservative? The answer to this much-debated question is quite simple: yes.
Which is to say that if by “the Jewish tradition” we mean what is…
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Leonard Fein
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1995
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When Vichy agreed to collaborate with the Germans, their decision to do so shocked many Jews living in France, particularly those who had recently arrived. Despite the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of…
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Judith Friedlander
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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Captain Wolfgang Hoffmann was a zealous executioner of Jews. As the commander of one of the three companies of Police Battalion 101, he and his fellow officers led their men, who were not SS men but…
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1996
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The Talmud is one of the great, classical writings of human civilization—enduring, influential, nourishing. It claims its place among the most successful pieces of writing in the history of humanity…
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Jacob Neusner
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Annandale-on-Hudson, United States of America
Date:
1997
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The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the…
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Yaacov Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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The term “past image” is used by different scholars in different ways, and it remains general and obscure because it refers to a structure derived from a bank of naturally amorphous reserves, seen by…
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Zohar Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1999
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Do Israelis have one culture or many cultures, or both one culture and many cultures? This question stems from three directions.
One direction is political. The Rabin assassination exposed a deep…
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Nissim Calderon
Places:
Beersheba, Israel
Date:
2000
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This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930.
It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology.
Were I not…
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Hélène Cixous
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Paris, France
Date:
2001
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My mother and father were an embarrassment to me, up until high school. They were much older than my friends’ parents (my dad was forty- seven and my mother was forty- four when I was born), and they…
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Paul Wellstone
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
2001
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Toward the end of the 1990s, a storm erupted among members of the Ethiopian community. They discovered that suspicions were being raised about the health of their blood, and that donations were…
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Abraham Adegah
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2002