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Hate Speech and Academic Freedom
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre,
Hate Speech and Academic Freedom takes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide. It is the first book to ask what impact antisemitism has had on the fundamental principles the academy relies on for its identity—academic freedom, free speech rights, standards for hiring or firing faculty members and administrators, and the ethics of academic conduct and debate. Antisemitic hatred is spreading at a fever pitch. What steps can counter it? What damage to students is done when departments embrace anti-Zionism? Should faculty members face consequences for promoting antisemitism on social media? Should universities make a new push to adopt the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism?
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Modern American poetry : volume one
Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Second Edition, contains poems by more than ninety American poets born before 1910, including many who have not been anthologized before. Editor Cary Nelson introduces students to a diverse selection of vital poetry, presenting both canonical and lesser-known selections by women, minority, Native American, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. In addition to offering the most detailed annotations available in an anthology of this type and selected poems in the beautifully illustrated form in which they first appeared, this is also the first collection to give full treatment to American long poems and poem sequences.
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No University Is an Island
The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education's independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited with paltry salaries for full-time work, politics and profit rather than intellectual freedom govern decision-making, and professors are being monitored for the topics they teach.
No University Is an Islandoffers a comprehensive account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. At once witty and devastating, it confronts these threats with exceptional frankness, then offers a prescription for higher education's renewal. In an insider's account of how the primary organization for faculty members nationwide has fought the culture wars, Cary Nelson, the current President of the American Association of University Professors, unveils struggles over governance and unionization and the increasing corporatization of higher education. Peppered throughout with previously unreported, and sometimes incendiary, higher education anecdotes, Nelson is at his flame-throwing best.
The book calls on higher education's advocates of both the Left and the Right to temper conviction with tolerance and focus on higher education's real injustices. Nelson demands we stop denying teachers, student workers, and other employees a living wage and basic rights. He urges unions to take up the larger cause of justice. And he challenges his own and other academic organizations to embrace greater democracy.
With broad and crucial implications for the future,No University Is an Islandwill be the benchmark against which we measure the current definitive struggle for academic freedom.
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The Presbyterian Church and Zionism Unsettled: Its Antecedents, and Its Antisemitic Legacy
The new millennium has seen increased hostility to Israel among many progressive constituencies, including several mainline Protestant churches. The evangelical community in the US remains steadfastly Zionist, so overall support for financial aid to Israel remain secure. But the cultural impact of accusations that Israel is a settler colonialist or apartheid regime are nonetheless serious; they are proving sufficient to make support for the Jewish state a political issue for the first time in many decades. Despite a general movement in emphasis from theology to politics in church debate, there remain theological issues at the center of church discussion. The Protestant church with the longest running and most well-funded anti-Zionist constituency is the Presbyterian church in the US. In the last decade, its Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) has produced several increasingly anti-Zionist books designed to propel divestment resolutions in the church’s annual meeting. The most widely debated of these was 2014’s Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide. This essay mounts a detailed analysis and critique of the book which documents the IPMN’s steady movement toward antisemitic positions. Among the theological issues underlying debate in Protestant denominations are the status of the divine covenant with the Jewish people, the role that the gift of land has as part of that covenant, and the nature of the characterization of the Jews as a “chosen people”. These, and other issues underlying Protestant anti-Zionism, have led to the formation of Presbyterians for Middle East Peace (PFMP), a group, unlike IPMN, that supports a two-state solution. The competing positions these groups have taken are of interest to all who want to track the role that Christian denominations have played in debates about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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Office Hours
In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers \"alternative futures\" for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hours is a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university.
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The Universe Is No Consolation: Hyam Plutzik, Jewish Identity, and the Ethics of Post-Holocaust Reading
A reasonably visible poet during his lifetime, HyamPlutzik has now largely disappeared from contemporary poetry scholarship. Except for one book review, no one has recognized the centrality of his negotiation of his Jewish identity to his poetry. That is largely because, like many writers of the 1950s, he was indirect and oblique in registering his response to contemporary political events. Yet a careful and better-informed reading of his Collected Poems shows a poet deeply engaged with recent Jewish history, including the Holocaust. By supplying that reading, this essay aims not only to reorient and recover interest in Plutzik's work but also to offer a model of how other Jewish writers of his generation can be historically contextualized. That effort is enhanced by the presence in the Plutzik archives of a Guggenheim application that includes a detailed plan for a long poem on the Holocaust that Plutzikwas unable to complete before he died. It is time to redress any influence anti-Semitism may have had on his reputation.
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Academic Freedom and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
No recent topic other than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has occasioned comparably acrimonious campus debates. The founding of the Jewish state in 1948 met with more than its share of regional political hostility—from the outbreak of war to increased antisemitism, soon morphing into terrorism—but American and European campuses did not mirror those disputes. Relatively consistent public and campus support for Israel obtained until the consequences of the 1967 Six-Day War unfolded. Egypt had occupied the Gaza Strip until then, and Jordan controlled the West bank of the Jordan River. A national consciousness among the Arab refugees of the 1948
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